By the side of the A272 in Hants there is a very odd collection of stones, I allways wondered about it but couldn't find any gen until....
A very idiosyncratic book came my way called "A272 an ode to a road" by Pieter Boogart ISBN 1-873429-29-0 (Sorry no links) , which shed some light, I'll precis the short article.
""Near Bramdean on the crossroads to Woodlands and Brookwood there is a small sarsen monument, made in the 1830'a by a Col. George Greenwood possibly to commemorate a favourite horse. Close to you can see that it consists of 5 or 6 units each with uprights carrying a larger cap stone like a small chambered tomb. The archaeologist Dr. Glyn Daniel in his Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture 1972, called it a "tetralithon" and placed it between genuinely old monuments and much more modern imitations""
The overall height of the stones is not great 5 to 6 ft. but the cap stones are pretty substantial. This seems to be quite an early example of Megalithamania! Any new info anyone?
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