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Chambered Tomb
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Near Steeple Barton is another ruined cromlech, also called the "Hoar Stone," which is now only a confused heap of small stones, having been broken up by an ignorant farmer. Some fifty years ago it was much more perfect, and two of the side stones were standing about four feet out of the ground.
"They used to say that whenever they tried to drag them two pebbles away with horses, they would roll back of their own accord. Them two pebbles growed out of little uns; at least that's my way of thinking."
- From George Nevill, of Yarnton, aged 74, March 1901. Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore by Percy Manning, in Folklore v13 (September 1902).
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Posted by Rhiannon
23rd June 2023ce
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