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THE NAKED BOY, SMITHHAYES ST 015 345 is in the corner of a field at the junction of four parishes Line drawings of it, when it was still in one piece, show an oddly curved stone with a large base and smaller top roughly pyramid shaped. It name may come from its status as a boundary stone. Boys were sometimes whipped at the boundaries, so they would never forget them. Possibly they were placed naked on this stone. The Naked Boy goes down to drink at the Beverton pond, the source of the River Tone, at midnight.
The Naked Boy, a bronze age standing stone by the roadside. It has been used to mark the point where four parishes meet - Treborough, Old Cleeve, Kings Brompton and Withiel Florey.
Leather Barrow, a bronze age round barrow standing about 10 ft high on the line of the boundary of Luxborough and Treboroughparishes and adjacent to the Brendon ridgeway.
Naked Boy Stone
Contributed by: Celia Haddon - more standing stones can be found on www.celiahaddon.co.uk and Peter
Smythe
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