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Bedmond Puddingstone
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 3 Access 5
Log Text: The Access rating of 5 is for the Swan Inn and Hyde Lane stone sites. It would be 2, a loooong walk, for the other one.
Botley Puddingstones
Date Added: 29th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 3 Access 5
Log Text: None
Towerhill (Herts) Puddingstone
Date Added: 26th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Towerhill (Herts) Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 on 27th Sep 2017. The puddingstone at the corner of Tenements Farm Lane and Tower Hill at Chipperfield. Measuring 75cm x 50cm x 27cm high, there is a smaller block of sandstone on the opposite corner of the lane.
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Nettlebed Puddingstones
Date Added: 26th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Nettlebed Puddingstones submitted by ocifant on 28th Mar 2005. The stones are next to a bus shelter, and an information board gives some basic history of the stones, referring to the puddingstone trail.
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Denner Hill Puddingstone
Date Added: 26th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2017. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Log Text: None
Great Missenden Puddingstone
Date Added: 26th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Great Missenden Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 on 26th Sep 2017. This so-called 'puddingstone', at the corner of Hyde Farm, is in fact a plain sarsen, without a trace of a pebble. It measures 66cm x 22cm x 60cm high.
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Log Text: This is a plain sarsen, NOT a puddingstone.
Bradenham Puddingstone
Date Added: 26th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bradenham Puddingstone submitted by thecaptain on 20th Oct 2006. The village green at Bradenham is surrounded by lumps of the local puddingstone, a geological oddity related to sarsen, and of which lumps were thought to have been used as prehistoric trackway markers throughout the south of England.
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St Albans Puddingstones
Date Added: 26th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Albans Puddingstones submitted by willowman1 on 4th Jan 2017. Puddingstone which used to stand outside the gate to Cunningham Hill Farm, St. Albans. Photo by T.P.C. Mulholland in 'Hertfordshire Countryside' magazine, June 1963.
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Verulamium Puddingstone
Date Added: 25th Sep 2017
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Verulamium Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 on 25th Sep 2017. Puddinsgtone perched on the base of the Triumphal Arch at Verulamium.
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Log Text: Not allowed to walk among the ruins nowadays, have to observe from raised walkways around the site.
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.
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....
Beauchamp Roding Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Beauchamp Roding Puddingstone submitted by Thorgrim on 25th Oct 2003. Legend tells that the stone stood on a hill top some distance from the intended site of the church. When the stone was dragged to this site to be incorporated into the church structure, it returned overnight to the hilltop. This happened three times and eventually the church was relocated and built on the hilltop so that the stone could remain undisturbed.
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High Laver Puddingstone
Date Added: 20th Sep 2016
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
High Laver Puddingstone submitted by J_Russell on 24th Mar 2010. The stone appears to have been moved to its present position where it lies against the wall of the farmhouse to the North of the church. It has also been painted white. There is no access to the stone, which is on private land, but it is visible from the churchyard.
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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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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.
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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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
Log Text: None
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.