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He celebrated by engaging Mr W A Clements, a stonemason from Exeter, to engrave granite stones in situ on
Buckland Beacon with the Ten Commandments. He started work on 15 December 1927 and completed the job on 14 June 1928. Whilst engraving the stones he lived in a cow shed on the site and was
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