More information : [ST 01763304] Dun's Stone remains of Stone Circle (NR) (1)
Dun's Stone (NAT) (2)
This site, on the Brendon Hills marks the junction of three parishes.
Dun's Stone has apparently been set up as a monolith, perhaps used as
a rubbing stone. The girth is at least 20ft at the base, and it is
7'6" high in its leaning position. There are other smaller stones
lying about more or less prostrate, notably one 47' to the SE and
another 57' to the E. None, however, conform in any way to the
segment of a circle. (3)
Dun's Stone is a large irregular unworked boulder of outcropping rock. It is probably no more than a boundary marker, although the parish boundary is no longer mered to the stone. There is
nothing to indicate that it was ever part of a stone circle. Only one other stone is visible in the vicinity, a block of outcrop flush with the ground 47' to the SW of Dun's Stone, which is probably that
mentioned by Auth 3 as being 47' to the SE. See GP AO/65/182/7.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (4)
Marked as 'Dane's Stone' on Day and Master's Map of Somerset 1782.
(5)
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