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Submitted by TimPrevett on Thursday, 04 August 2011 Page Views: 12776
Natural PlacesSite Name: Fairy Stone Alternative Name: The Devil's StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.176 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Shropshire Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Village: Clunbury
Map Ref: SO37237958
Latitude: 52.410604N Longitude: 2.924217W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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TimPrevett visited on 1st Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 The Fairy Stone Grid Ref: SJ372798 In Paul Devereux's book "Places of Power" pages 121-2 he records this diminished standing stone known as The Fairy Stone (AKA The Devil's Stone). It has a long tradition of fairy lights associated with it, and an account of someone walking past the stone one night getting the fairy lights stuck to his trousers. On getting home he found the trousers to be scorched - according to the tale... Or did he invent the story to explain why he maybe got his best trousers damaged? The stone is said to be situated close to a geological fault.
Or did he invent the story to explain why he maybe got his best trousers damaged? The stone is said to be situated close to a geological fault.
Source: Paul Devereux's book "Places of Power" pages 121-2 he records this diminished standing stone known as The Fairy Stone (AKA The Devil's Stone).
The Fairy Stone is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 106651 and also features on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Fairy Stone, Clunbury, Shropshire.
Pastscape say this is: "an earthfast rugged, roughly round glacial erratic at SO 37237958 upon steep SW slopes of permanent pasture, measures 1.3m by 1.0m and stands 0.7m above ground level. It has every appearance of being entirely natural and there is no evidence to suggest it was ever a standing stone of prehistoric origin."
The TNA page contains a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
Note: Photos now up from another south Shropshire site - with strong folklore associations
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