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Halangy Down
Date Added: 30th Sep 2016
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1971. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Halangy Down Settlement submitted by Thorgrim on 1st Jul 2003. Iron Age courtyard house settlement similar to Chysauster. Situated on St Marys at SV 90981237, it overlooks the sea and is below the much older Bant's Carn entrance grave.
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Log Text: In the summer of 1971 I spent two weeks on an archaeological dig on Halangy Downs, directed by the late great Paul Ashbee and his wife Richmal. The only thing I can remember unearthing was a perfectly chiselled stone ball, which I was first told was a Roman ballista missile, but later turned out to be a tool for grinding corn in a quern. I think it ended up as a paperweight on the director's desk....
Chelsworth Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1976. My rating: Condition -1
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Vikings Mound
Date Added: 11th Jul 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1977. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Vikings Mound submitted by willowman1 on 26th Sep 2016. Also once known as the Bubberies and Quidenham Mount, this mound is said in local legend to mark a battlefield and/or be one of the many resting places of Boudicca, "with all her jewels". In fact it's almost certainly the motte of a small 12th century castle, built to guard the nearby ford of the river Wittle. Nowadays, it's much more overgrown and hard to see than it was when I visited and photographed it (poorly) in the late 1970's.
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Log Text: Mound easy to see from roadside back then. Now overgrown and impossible to see unless you trespass on private land.
Hall Farm Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1977. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Log Text: None
Timworth Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Log Text: None
Ingham Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2015. My rating: Condition -1 Access 5
Log Text: None
Barnham Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2015. My rating: Condition -1 Access 5
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Grimes Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2016. My rating: Access 1
Grimes Puddingstone submitted by Dodomad on 30th Apr 2024. Dr Rudge’ photo of the Grimes puddingstone. This stone is now buried in bracken (or worse).
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Thetford Puddingstones
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2016. My rating: Condition -1 Access 4
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Drakestone Green Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2016. My rating: Access 5
Drakestone Green Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 on 30th Sep 2016. The 'puddingstone' at Drakestone Green, as I saw it back in the 1980's, actually a ferruginous conglomerate. It's now hidden under a hedge, but the current owner tells me that it's about a metre high, and that there's a similar stone not far away at Ropers Green.
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Log Text: Couldn't find it in 2016, but saw & photographed it in the 1980's.
Bildeston Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2016. My rating: Condition -1 Access 4
Log Text: None
Kersey Puddingstone
Date Added: 21st Nov 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kersey Puddingstone submitted by ermine on 15th Nov 2005. Close-up of the Kersey puddingstone near the bridge over the watersplash
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Marks Tey Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Marks Tey Puddingstone submitted by Thorgrim on 27th Jan 2005. A puddingstone boulder is said to be buried at the foot of the church tower, but I could not find it. However, lumps of septaria (a softer limestone conglomerate) have been used in the construction of this Saxon church. The absence of building stone in Essex is shown clearly by the mixture of rubble, septaria and flint with re-claimed Roman tiles and bricks from a nearby villa.
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Fordstreet Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Fordstreet Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 on 17th Sep 2016. The other Ford Street stone mentioned is at TL 92048 26980, at the corner of The Old Bakery (a former shop), next to the Queen's Head pub. Where the black paint has worn away it can be seen that this isn't a puddingstone, and measuring only 40 x 20 x 5cm high, it's ridiculously small to have been a markstone.
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Fordham Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Fordham Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 on 17th Jul 2016. The stone now at the side entrance to Rams Farm, Fordham, moved from the farmyard in the 1960's. It measures 110 x 50 x 130cm high and is pure sarsen, with no sign of any pebbles at all - so it should never have been part of Rudge's 'Puddingstone Track'.
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Thornwood Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition -1 Access 3
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Holyfield Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Holyfield Puddingstone submitted by Thorgrim on 28th Oct 2003. Puck's Stone in Holy Field near Waltham Abbey. TL 387030. This puddingstone was the trigger that began Dr Rudge's fifty year research into the existence of a lost Puddingstone Trackway from Grimes Graves to Stonehenge. (see Sacred Stones of Essex)
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Parvills Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Parvills Puddingstone submitted by J_Russell on 7th Mar 2010. This moss-covered puddingstone lies to the North of the road to Parvills Farm, against the concrete wall of an outbuilding. It measures approximately 30 x 25 x 10 inches.
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Log Text: Stone now almost completely obscured by bushes and nettles.
Monkham Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 13th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 3
Log Text: Just a field, as the stone was buried before 1949.
Magdalen Laver Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Magdalen Laver Puddingstone submitted by Thorgrim on 18th Jan 2005. Puddingstone set into the foundations of the church. No. 35 on the Neolithic (possibly)Puddingstone Trail.
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