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Standing stone, the only remaining one of three said to mark the graves of the three witches who bewitched King Duncan in 960 AD. The surviving granite stone, 0.9 m (3 ft) square by 0.3 m (1 ft) high, is clasped by an iron band. An iron plaque bears the inscription, 'From Cluny Hill witches were rolled in stout barrels through which spikes were driven. Where the barrels stopped they were burned with their mangled contents. This stone marks the site of one such burning.' A second stone, said to be one of the original three stones, a conglomerate boulder 0.8 m high by 1.1 m wide, was recorded in close proximity in the garden of the bungalow, Trafalgar Place (NJ05NW0527), and visited by the OS in 1963. The third stone was broken up in 1802, when the remaining stone was also damaged.
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