Long Stone (Minchinhampton)
It is believed that the Menhir Long Stone (also called Monument No. 208981) near the hamlet of Hampton Fields, southeast of Minchinhampton near Stroud in Gloucestershire in England , was the ceiling slab of a chamber tomb or portal tomb . A smaller stone in the field wall about 11.5 m away could come from the same megalithic complex or belong to a stone pair. The Minchinhampton Long Stone is located in a field just off the Minchinhampton to Avening road.
The approximately 2.3 m high and 1.8 m wide stone made of porous limestone has some natural holes. Tradition has it that children who crawl through the 38 cm hole will be cured of diseases such as measles or whooping cough. Another myth has it that the Long Stone runs around the field at midnight. The menhir is believed to be the burial site of a Danish leader who was killed in a battle at Woeful Danes Bottom nearby. Allegedly, attempts to pull out the Long Stone with oxen failed. Flint and arrowheads were found on the Long Stone .
The Crackstone Longbarrow and Gatcombe Lodge burial mounds are nearby.
literature
- Rodney Castleden: The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC 1992
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 52.4 " N , 2 ° 10 ′ 11.9" W.