A Derived Legend
The story has also been adapted to other local circumstances. The early 19th-century cleric and folklorist Rev. John Skinner collected a tale from the area that is now called Druid Stoke from a local farmer (account of Druid Stoke burial chamber ). Two giants had thrown stones at each other, one standing at Henbury, the other at St Vincent’s Rocks by the Avon Gorge (see above). The Henbury giant, called Goram or Gorm, threw a large one at his rival, but it fell short of its target; this accounts for the capstone of a formerly visible megalithic monument at Druid Stoke (see Druidical Stones on the 1889 OS 6” map, Gloucestershire at 356176).
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