Druid's Stone
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Druid's Stone (also called Devil's Stone or Giant's Grave) is a boulder in Bungay near Norwich in east Suffolk in England .
One of the few known stones in Suffolk is in St Mary's graveyard in Bungay. It was supposedly a place of druid rituals. The rough, moss-covered stone is a granite of 60 × 30 cm, which is 76 cm high. In the 1920s it was called a "fallen monolith", but was erected in its original place around 1925.
One theory is that it came from the ruins of Bungay Castle.
Legend has it that when girls have danced or hit him around him twelve times, they put their ears to the stone to hear the answers to their questions or requests.
Another says that children would dance around him seven times on a certain day of the year and then wait for the devil to show up.
Bungay is a late Neolithic settlement and was a place protected on three sides by a loop of the Waveney River, while on the fourth side there was later a deep ditch that was at the ends in the swamp. A polished flint ax , triangular flint, knife, leaf-shaped arrowhead, and bones of a girl or a small woman were found on the premises .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 20.1 ″ N , 1 ° 26 ′ 15.8 ″ E