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Identification note: the stones mark the junction of Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, and of the parishes of Batheaston, Marshfield and Colerne, the Ordnance Survey of 1813-14 dates them as 1736 but Stukeley mentions them in 1723

Summary: photograph, the Three Shire Stones at Bannerdown, stones formed into a replica of a Stonehenge megalith, Bannerdown, Wiltshire (?), 1892=1927

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