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Re: Bridestones by Vicky on Thursday, 12 July 2001

The Bridestones is a chambered cairn lying on the Cheshire/Staffs border, and is often described as Cheshire's only megalithic monument. All that remains of it today is the main chamber, but it is originally believed to have been similar to the Clyde cairns of Scotland with a horned cairn and crescentic forecourt.

Many thousands of tons of stone were removed from the site by road builders in the 18th century, while still more were used to build the rockeries in the nearby Bridestones House and those in Tunstall Park.

Antiquarians describe the main chamber as being separated by a port holed stone and also refer to two smaller cists some 55 yards distant from this one (now destroyed). All 3 cists were originally covered by a huge mound 120 yards in length. There is much debate as to whether this mound ran east from the remaining chamber or as would seem more logical, west.

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