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@NellytheWillow @chris @Vibracobra23 for some reason (I'm not quite sure why) it's the actual design of the pinnacle that intrigues me - and it's why it caught my eye after seeing the original post, the Stratton arch. It looks sort of Indian or Thai to my untrained eye, and I wonder if there's a significance to the design.

@NellytheWillow @chris @Vibracobra23 It's a fascinating subject and I've long been aware of the Christian overlaying of more ancient sites ... I don't know enough factually/academically, and I can see that the marketplace as we know it would perhaps be late medieval, rather than pre-christian, but there would nonetheless have been trade ... ahhh I don't know! I'm really just recently delving into the actual history of Britain to augment a vague understanding and a kind of felt sense!

@NellytheWillow @Vibracobra23 I think it was a cross (though not the conventional one!) It was in the road junction outside the rather lovely St Thomas a Becket church in Monmouth

@NellytheWillow @Vibracobra23 excuse the poor quality photo, but I saw the same stonework 'cone' yesterday in Monmouth!

And here's me posing beside it 😅

The Long Stone, near Staunton, Forest of Dean. Almost hidden by shoulder-height bracken.

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I present to you the Bronze Age standing stone, known as Queen's Stone.

Excavated in 1926 by Alfred Watkins (of Ley Lines fame), twice as much lies buried beneath the ground.

It sits alone in a huge bend of the River Wye, near Symonds Yat.

And the strangest thing about it? There appears to be no surviving folklore about this remarkable stone 🤷🏼‍♀️

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