Qualla: Childe's Tomb https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/childe-s-tomb-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Childe's Tomb https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb Childe's Tomb: Introduction https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb/ Photo credit Necrothesp, CC BY-SA 3.0. Caught in a Dartmoor snowstorm, the hunter Childe knew he was going to die. According to the legend Tristram Risdon recorded in 1630, he killed his horse, slit it open, and crawled inside the warm carcass for shelter. He froze to death anyway. Before he died, he wrote a note: whoever found his body and buried it in their church would inherit his estates at Plymstock. The monks of Tavistock Abbey found him. The men of Plymstock heard about it and laid an ambush at a bridge over the Tavy. The monks took a different route, built a new bridge to cross the river, reached Tavistock with the body, and claimed the estate. The story is almost certainly a folk tale. But the cross is real, and the kistvaen beneath it is older still.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/childe-s-tomb-wp/gbvp-childes-tomb-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Childe's Tomb: On the Edge of the Mire https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Childe's Tomb stands on the south-east edge of Foxtor Mires, about 500 metres north of Fox Tor, in some of the loneliest country on southern Dartmoor. Foxtor Mires is the inspiration for Grimpen Mire in Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles, and the comparison is not unkind to ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/childe-s-tomb-wp/gbvp-childes-tomb-on-the-edge-of-the-mire.mp3 0:06 2 full Childe's Tomb: What the Tomb Actually Is https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb/ Photo credit Own Herby talk thyme, CC BY-SA 4.0. Beneath the cross is a kistvaen, a Bronze Age stone burial chamber that long predates the medieval Christian monument above it. The cross was originally raised on a pedestal of three granite steps. The lowest step was made of four stones, each six feet long and a foot square. The...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/childe-s-tomb-wp/gbvp-childes-tomb-what-the-tomb-actually-is.mp3 0:06 3 full Childe's Tomb: What the Farmworker Did https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb/ Photo credit Totnesmartin, Public domain. In February 1809, a man called Thomas Windeatt from Totnes leased a 582-acre 'newtake' in the valley of the River Swincombe, intending to enclose and improve a stretch of Dartmoor. This was a fashionable thing to do in the early nineteenth century, encouraged by Sir Thomas Tyrwhi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/childe-s-tomb-wp/gbvp-childes-tomb-what-the-farmworker-did.mp3 0:06 4 full Childe's Tomb: The First Save https://qualla.com/childe-s-tomb/ Photo credit P. H. Rogers, Public domain. In 1890 the tomb was re-erected under the direction of E. Fearnley Tanner, the honorary secretary of the newly-founded Dartmoor Preservation Association. The restoration was, in Tanner's own words, dissatisfying: several stones were missing, and he could not recreate the monument...

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