Blackslade Down Cist

Photo taken on 26-08-2017

OS Map: SX 73416 75519
OS Source: Google
HER record: 7437
Megalithic Portal: 32071
PMD: Blackslade Down
Alternate name: Blackslade Down
Short Name: CT Blackslade
Butler map: 9.8
Butler Vol 5: p.47 & Fig.26
Dixon Cist #: 59
Grinsell: WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR 14
DPD page: 129
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 53 56
Dimensions (m): 10.0 x 0.5 C
Lidar: SX73427552
Notes: Butler Vol. 1. Map 9.8 (photo on p.61, diagram Vol. 5. p.47). Lethbridge diagram p.129 and photo bottom p.129.
Nearby sites: SX73427552

References

These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER record. For some records there are very good resources on the Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor (PMD) website by Bill Radcliffe. Barrow reports are linked above as are references to Butler, Grinsell and Turner.

• Baring-Gould, Sabine, Fourth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.29 pp.145-65 (1897)
• Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
• Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)
• Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
• St Leger-Gordon, Douglas, Under Dartmoor hills, (1954)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 53, T.D.A. Vol.66 pp.39-42 (1934)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)