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Re: Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne by HarryTwenty on Saturday, 13 January 2024

Description from the twentytrees website:

Hoar Stone Tumulus
"This lies in the parish of Duntisbourn Abbots, above four and a half miles from Cirencester. It was 120 feet long and 90 feet wide, composed of loose quarry stones. The largest stone at the east end has been long known by the name of the "Hoar Stone;" it is of the calcareous kind, twelve feet high, thirteen feet in circumference, and weighs between five and six tons; it was half above and half under ground. Another stone, about nine feet square and one foot thick, lay flat on the ground; this covered a chamber in which the remains of eight or nine human bodies were discovered. The chamber was divided into two cells about four feet square and six feet deep."

See "Archaeologia," vol. XVI, p362.

Also "Gentleman's Magazine," vol. LXXVI, p971.

(www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/Books/Thing/Long-Barrows.html?beBKOfC5)


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