There might be a number of stones around here (the area is awash in barrows and mounds) – I hope this map reference is helpful. This sarsen (or is it a deliberately placed stone?) is near to Luccombe Springs. Katy Jordan (in The Haunted Landscape) tells of a conversation she had with a local woman, Jean Morrison. Apparently if you hold your breath and run round the stone 9 times, backwards, the devil will appear. Brave Jean had tried it as a child but alas was unable to hold her breath for so long.
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Could this refer to the same stone? The area sounds convincingly between Bratton and Edington.
The following occurs in a Perambulation of the Hundred and Parish of Westbury, temp. Eliz., 1575:
“And so by a straight line between Eddington Field and Bretton’s Field to a stone called ‘Patten’s Stone’ (anciently Padcanstone; and so straight along the way to a little ball where once was a stone cross, called Lealland Cross, standing on the highway between Devizes and Warminster.”
A contribution on p278 of Wiltshire Notes and Queries, June 1894.
David Stokes’ comprehensive webpage has masses of information about the local area and its legendary? historical? site of the battle of Ethandun. He mentions that he played at the stone as a child: he knew that it was stained red, from all the Danes that were beheaded there.
He says it is a different rock to any found locally: I have tentatively changed the category from ‘natural rock feature’ to ‘standing stone’ to reflect this.
Sites within 20km of The Bloodstone
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Tinhead Hill
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Bratton Castle & Westbury White Horse
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South Down Sleight
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Imber
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Dirtley Wood Bowl Barrow
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Oxendean Down
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Boles Barrow
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Norton Bavant Long Barrow
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Battlesbury Camp
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Middle Hill
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Arn Hill Down
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Heytesbury Long Barrow
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Scratchbury
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Cop Heap
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Knook Barrows
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Castle Barrow
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King Barrow
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Kill Barrow
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Knook Castle
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Upton Great Barrow
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Tilshead Lodge Longbarrow
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Sutton Veny Barrows
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Long Ivor Farm
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Robin Hood’s Bower
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Old Ditch Longbarrow
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Cley Hill
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The Devil’s Bed and Bolster
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Hangman’s Copse
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Corton Long Barrow
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White Barrow
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Cow Down
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Golden Barrow (destroyed)
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Great Bradford Wood
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Gunschurch
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Codford Circle
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Silver Barrow
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Sherrington Motte
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Great Chalfield Barrow
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Sherrington Long Barrow
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Mount Pleasant (Sherrington)
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Boyton Down Round Barrow
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East Down Long Barrow
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Boyton Down Long Barrow
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Budbury
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Mother Anthony’s Well
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Roundway Hill Covert
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Ell Barrow
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Oliver’s Castle
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Fromefield
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Roddenbury Hill
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Pertwood Down Long Barrow
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Cold Kitchen Hill
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Boar’s Bottom
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Yarnbury Castle
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Cold Kitchen Hill (Western)
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Slay Barrow
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Roundway Hill
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Murtry Hill
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Biddcombe and Whitepits Down Cross Dykes
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King’s Play Hill
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Net Down
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Egbert’s Stones
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Jug’s Grave
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Broadbury Banks
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Dairy Farm barrow
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Beacon Barrow
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Conkwell
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East of Court Hill Plantation, Kingston Deverill
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Marden Henge (and Hatfield Barrow)
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Hinton Charterhouse Barrow
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Naish Hill
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River Frome Barrow
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Bilbury Rings
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Barrow Hill (Buckland Dinham)
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Hayes Wood Enclosure
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Bowood Park Mound
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Winterbourne Stoke West Group
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Three Kings Barrows
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The Giants Graves
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Shepherds Shore Long Barrow
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Winterbourne Stoke East Group
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Loxwell
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Monkton Farleigh
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Easton Hill
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Church End Ring
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Tedbury Camp
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Laggus Farm Mound
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Morgan’s Hill
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Morgan’s Hill (eastern group)
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Robin Hood’s Ball
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Hanging Langford Camp
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Winterbourne Stoke Down Long Barrow
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East Castle
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Bowood
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Hoare Stone
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Roughridge Hill
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Casterley Camp
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Claverton Down Barrow
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Faulkland
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Baltic Farm
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Kitchen Barrow
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Berwick St James
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Bathampton and Claverton Downs
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Wadbury Camp
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The Hanging Stone
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Fargo Compound Group
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Totney Hill
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Tan Hill
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Tan Hill (west)
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Lesser Cursus
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Easton Down
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Rybury
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Stony Littleton
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The Lesser Cursus Henge
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Woodborough Holed Stone
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Big Tree Long Barrow
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Long Knoll Barrow
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Box Sewage Works
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