Blackslade Ford 4 Cairn
Photo taken on 26-08-2017
Database entries
OS Map: SX 73827 74872
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX73827487
HER: MDV30634
Alternate name: Blackslade Ford 4
Short Name: CN Blackslad 4
Butler map: 10.
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Maybe
Lidar: SX 73827 74872
Guide Map: 37
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Widecombe in the Moor Car Park (3.5 km) [Route: 271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (4.3 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 73827 74872
Notes
HER: Described by Belsey and Butler as one of a group of cairns running south from Blackslade Ford surmounted by a stone marking the boundary between Buckland in the Moor and Ashburton parishes. Recently surveyed and not considered to be a cairn; part of the reave.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.1: The East, (1991)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)