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six-metre-tall red sandstone posts together. These were replaced long ago. Allegedly, they were torn out in 1814 by some
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Jennifer Lang, Selected as Team Member
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woman was put to death, apparently after she stole a chicken and two loaves of bread for her sick child.
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