More information : (SU 16748251) Long Stone (TI) Standing Stone (LB) (site of) (TI). (1)
There formerly stood at Broome a standing stone called the Long
Stone. According to Aubrey it was c.10ft high and from it there
extended a line of smaller stones. (2)
Local tradition confirms the site of the large standing stone and
implies that there were more as the field is known as.'Long
Stones'. In 1903 Passmore recorded that "old Daniel Skinner" of
Devizes Road remembered breaking up the standing stones in
Longstones Field. Some, which were sarsen, were taken to Woodstock.
This last remark of Passmore's suggests a pre-historic origin for
the site since surface sarsen is not common locally though
isolated boulders occur in the clay. In the 19th c. Swindon
procured sarsen kerbstones from the Fifield and Overton Down areas
of Salisbury Plain. (3)
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