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Devil’s Arrows Traveled 18 Kilometers, One Stone Kept Moving
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Devil’s Arrows Traveled 18 Kilometers, One Stone Kept Moving

Zircon lifted by adhesive tape traces Britain’s tallest stone row to a tor 18 km away, and to a war memorial built from its missing stone.

A five-and-a-half-meter stone cross stands at Aldborough, a village neighboring Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, carved sometime in the fifteenth century to commemorate a battle fought at Boroughbridge in 1322. It was hauled to Aldborough from the Boroughbridge market square in 1852, to clear space in a growing town. For more than a century, one antiqu…

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