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==Query #27 - Stones on Charmy Down==

'''22/07/1933'''

Various references are made in local histories to "Druidical" stones in the field north-west of Charmy Down Farm. The earliest I have seen is in Tunstall's "Rambles," 3rd ed., 1851. The most authoritative is a reminiscence addressed to Mr. R. E. M. Peach, and incorporated by him in his "Annals of Swainswick," 1890. From internal evidence it may have been written by a Fellow of Oriel about 1877. He says: "In the field on the north of the farm may still be seen some Druidical stones, but they were much more conspicuous in my childhood." There is a single low weathered stone still standing at what I have been told is the site. In 1927 I met an old man who knew the Down well, and he remembered more stones and their arrangement. I think there must still be men living who can remember these stones, and I should be glad to hear how many these were and how they were arranged. For purposes of record I give the following data for the site of the existing stone: Lat. 51deg., 25min. 12sec. Long. 2deg. 20min. 17 ½ sec. A.T.W., Monkton Combe.

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