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The Hanging Stone OSGR SX 5835 6367 

Comments 
Used as part of a wall, and as a boundstone, having the letters "SP" (or "CB") cut into it. 
Rowe suggests it was the remains of a dolmen. Brian Byng (pers. comm.) reports traces of a stone row. 

References 
S. Rowe A Perambulation of Dartmoor (1896) 180-1. 
TDA LXXII (1940) 192-3. 
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) 266-7. 
P. Pettit Prehistoric Dartmoor (1974) 147. 
E. Hemery High Dartmoor (1983) 208-9. 
G.A.M. Gerrard Dartmoor (1997) 63. 
Dave Parks menhirs.
Legendary Dartmoor

HER/SMR number 2423 SX 56 SE/21 
NMR number 439211 SX 56 SE 36 

Photographs of the stone may be seen at TDA LXXII (1940) Pl V, or Worth Dartmoor Pl 57, and Butler Vol V p53. 

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