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Standing Stones

Other OS name in the Parish of Portisham

Etymology

( site of ) , described in 1774 Hutch1 1555 as ' four upright stones … about two feet high ; except that one is broke off even with the ground . The common people preserve this obscure distich relating to it , Jefferey and Jone And their little dog Denty , and Edy alone . '