Legend Of Childe's Tomb Granite Cross Dartmoor Devon England 1930s Ad Trade Card

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Legend Of Childe's Tomb Granite Cross Dartmoor Devon England 1930s Ad Trade Card
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ORIGINAL 1930s  TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
BRITISH LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES
THE LEGEND OF CHILDE'S TOMB
Dartmoor, Devonshire
On a bleak height of Dartmoor are still to be found the stones of Childe's Tomb. Childe was Lord
of the Manor of Plymstock. Lost and overcome by the snows of a blizzard, he slew his exhausted
horse and, after using its blood to write on a granite slab: "The first that finds and brings me to my
grave, The lands of Plymstock he shall have," he crept into the creature's body in a vain
endeavour to save himself through its warmth. Tradition says that monks from Tavistock found
him, and so gained the lands. It is thought, however, that the story has an earlier Saxon origin.
Childe's Tomb is a granite cross on Dartmoor, Devon, England. Although not in its original form, it
is more elaborate than most of the crosses on Dartmoor, being raised upon a constructed base,
and it is known that a kistvaen is underneath.
A well-known legend attached to the site, first recorded in 1630 by Tristram Risdon, concerns a
wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite
disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection. The legend relates that Childe
left a note of some sort saying that whoever found and buried his body would inherit his lands at
Plymstock. After a race between the monks of Tavistock Abbey and the men of Plymstock, the
Abbey won.
The tomb was virtually destroyed in 1812 by a man who stole most of the stones to build a house
nearby, but it was partly reconstructed in 1890
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