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The milestone is near the pub on the Rodborough Road (The Bull?) and can be visited along with Whitfield's Tump long barrow on Minchinhampton Common. There is a very similar milestone near the long barrow, the back of which is covered in small circular depressions:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/78607/whitfields_tump.html

The Rodborough milestone has some little fossils embedded in it, just for a bit of extra interest.

There is another broken milestone a bit further along the road as well. These are the ones that are mentioned in the Sulllivan book.

The other Horestone is in someone's garden I believe. It may be prehistoric, but the other's aren't.

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As an aside, Sullivan's book also mentions two little stones at the foot of Tom Long's Post on Minchinhampton common. One has a red reflector mounted on it. Contrary to the suggestion that they may be part of a vanished long barrow, they are modern. A photo of Tom Long's Post from the 1930s shows they were not there:

http://www.stroudphotos.co.uk/page7.htm

But by the 1960s:

http://www.francisfrith.com/minchinhampton/photos/tom-longs-post-c1960_m83060/#utmcsr=google.co.uk&utmcmd=referral&utmccn=google.co.uk