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Nine Stones

Other OS name in the Parish of Winterborne Abbas

Etymology

( stone circle ) , described by Hutch 1 1 303 as ' a very curious piece of antiquity , a kind of Stonehenge in miniature … Nine rude stones , of unequal dimensions , are placed erect in a circular form . '