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GUEST,henryp Songs feat. standing stones, barrows etc (34) RE: Songs feat. standing stones, barrows etc 25 Sep 23


Childe's Tomb continued;
Devon folk singer Seth Lakeman sang about Childe the Hunter on his 2006 album Freedom Fields.
Dartmoor folk singer Jim Causley sang Childe the Hunter, a traditional song from the Baring Gould Collection, on Songs of Dartmoor 2023.

Blackingstone Rock is a tor on east Dartmoor with granite steps erected in the 1870s leading to the top. John Murray in his book ‘A Handbook for Travellers in Devon’ (1879) describes the legend; “The local legend runs that King Arthur and the ‘enemy’ flung quoits at each other from the tops of Heltor and neighbouring Blackstone (seen across the valley), which quoits remain in the shape of the granite that crests them.”

Another tale is about a woman who left her baby in the garden while she visited the nearby fair at Moretonhampstead only to discover upon her return that the Ravens of Blackingstone Rock had murdered the poor child. The story was put to verse in 1899 by Sabine Baring Gould as Brennan Moor. Jim Causley recorded this too on Songs of Dartmoor as Blackingstone Ravens.


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