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Holed Stone
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"An interesting idea but strange that nothing else like it exists elsewhere." Quoted by Pure Joy.
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The Long Stone, Parish of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
Folklore has attributed similar healing properties to the Long Stone in the Parish of Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire. Known locally as the "holey stone", this slab of oolitic limestone stands nearly 8 feet high with a thickness of about 18 inches. Believed to be the last surviving fragment of a long barrow chamber, the stone has two holes in it through the larger of which mothers would pass their children to cure them of whooping cough or rickets. Folklore also tells that the Long Stone runs around the field it is in when it hears the town clock in nearby Minchinhampton strike midnight.
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Posted by satmansmissus
27th August 2006ce
Edited 28th August 2006ce
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