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Shovel Down & The Long Stone

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Folklore

Grinsell records that during the annual beating of the bounds of Gidleigh common, the first man to reach the long stone was given money as a prize.

('folklore of prehistoric sites in Britain')
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
8th June 2004ce

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Also I have read that people where payed to clime up it

Barbar, Chris and Judy Chard 1990 Tales of the Teign Devon, UK : Obelisk Publications

Posted by Floksnog
12th October 2008ce
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