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Giant’s Grave

Round Barrow(s)

Folklore

There is a long mound in a part of my parish which is popularly called the "Giant's Grave," and very near it two large stones, which have probably rolled down from the beds of chert-like rock on the side or the chalk-hill above. I discovered lately that there is a popular tradition existing, though my informant somewhat doubted its correctness, that these stones move whenever they hear the cocks crow in Chesilborne, a neighbouring village.

C. W BINGHAM
From Notes and Queries, Jan. 6th, 1866.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
26th August 2006ce

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