brenscombe

Updated: April 30, 2025

So difficult is it to contemplate the ages through which gradual weathering would bring these stones to their present shape that scientists, as recently as the middle of the last century, were at variance as to their natural or artificial origin. A by-road, a little over five miles long, runs under the face of Nine Barrows Down and Brenscombe Hill to Corfe.

Edric Holmes - Wanderings in Wessex: An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter