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The stone circle built by hand
It was to help people seek a new way of life – they held pagan rites and built a stone circle by hand, until tensions rose into witchcraft, conflict and abandonment.
In the 1990s, Eleanor Anstruther opened her land on Hascombe Hill to a growing community of people seeking an alternative way of life. They gathered for pagan ceremonies and built a stone circle by hand.
Life on the hill was idyllic – but as the community expanded, so did tensions, ending in accusations of witchcraft, fractured loyalties and the loneliness of a site slowly reclaimed by nature.
Contains brief mentions of drug use in a historical context.
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