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….of which Thomas Hardy wrote in 1881:
“To the south, in the direction of the young shepherd’s idle gaze, there rose one conspicuous object above the uniform moonlit plateau, and only one. It was a Druidical trilithon, consisting of three oblong stones in the form of a doorway, two on end, and one across as a lintel. Each stone had been worn, scratched, washed, nibbled, split, and otherwise attacked by ten thousand different weathers; but now the blocks looked shapely and little the worse for wear, so beautifully were they silvered over by the light of the moon.”
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04/05/2017 at 07:43
Tim Daw
Looks so much better now it isn’t in the middle of a field – http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-igwmAFt5hUY/UCkY9MIskfI/AAAAAAAABbY/CN_yGt-s_zU/s1600/001.JPG
04/05/2017 at 09:41
georgenash
Devil’s Den, Wiltshire?
04/05/2017 at 10:03
heritageaction
Perhaps!
Nice bit of building land round it George.
04/05/2017 at 18:03
Chris Brooks
It has a proper enclosure and information signage now.