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Notes: As marked on Side by Side, there appears to be a tolmen here, a ‘tolmen’ meaning a ‘holed stone’ which there is at Great Staple Tor, depicted by Anna Eliza Bray (see her description below).

Bray describes the tolmen in ‘Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire on the Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy Volume 1‘, pp.242-243; “On the same group of rocks is a singular Druidical monument, or tolmen, for such I am convinced it is… On the top of a rock, with a flat surface, a stone, nine feet long, and six feet wide, is supported by two other stones. One of the supports is placed on the very edge of the rock. Neither point of bearing is an inch in thickness, so that, in appearance, a slight effort would remove it. Through this aperture I crept, not without apprehension, and took especial care not to touch its supporter even in the slightest manner.” Bray drew two sketches but it is almost definite that, since then, the tolmen has fallen into disrepair; the evidence seems to be there, especially when you compare her drawing to the rock today.

Reference: Peter Freeman, Tors of Dartmoor Facebook Group (2021), kindly supplied Dartefacts with the original NGR and details for this item, and also the image below to help identify this intriguing feature.

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