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Standing Stone / Menhir
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'Famous among local relics is the Blowing Stone, moved from the Ridgeway to Kingstone Lisle and to be seen at a farm below Blowing Stone Hill. A mournful wail is achieved by blowing into a hole in this stone. Some say this was the stone used by King Alfred for summoning his troops, others that it is of Druidical origin, and a third opinion places it among many large stones found locally and believed to be survivals of the ice age.'
The Berkshire Book
by the Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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Posted by wysefool
13th May 2007ce
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