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Submitted by AngieLake on Wednesday, 18 September 2013  Page Views: 6687

MuseumsSite Name: Wells and Mendip Museum Alternative Name: Standing stone at Wells and Mendip Museum
Country: England County: Somerset Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Wells
Map Ref: ST551459
Latitude: 51.210530N  Longitude: 2.644157W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by AngieLake : We weren't able to visit the museum this time as it was early evening and closed then. The stone caught my eye, and I wonder if anyone knows more about it? (Right opposite the NW corner of the Cathedral.) (Vote or comment on this photo)
I spotted this old stone outside Wells and Mendip Museum while photographing the Cathedral (across the road), on a beautiful sunny evening in May 2013.

The stone looks genuine. Initially I had no success in finding information about it but then I asked the museum - see below for more details.

There was another in the lawn outside the museum dediated to Harry Patch, a wonderful old WWI veteran, who'd recently died. (I forget if I'd seen that one as I'd not photographed it.)
The Museum is across the road from the NW corner of the Cathedral.

Their Balch Room houses a unique collection of artefacts, the bulk of which were collected on and around Mendip. Including the skull of a brown bear discovered at Wookey Hole, a large number of stone-age tools, and an impressive collection of Iron Age artefacts discovered by Balch during his many years of excavation at Wookey Hole caves.

Opening times: vary according to season
Small admission charge
Address:
Wells and Mendip Museum
8 Cathedral Green
Wells
Somerset
BA5 2UE

Telephone: 01749 673477
email: [email protected]

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Note: The standing stone at Wells and Mendip museum (also has a nice museum attached!)
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Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by Horatio : Showing a different face of the stone outside the museum. Be interested to know what type of rock this is, as its very pitted. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by Horatio : Standing stone outside the Museum, looks very gnarled and has two iron hinge hangers, so was utilised as a gatepost and a hole through it (not sure what the hole would be for). If this stone could speak eh? (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by Bladup : The holed stone at Wells and Mendip Museum, Standing stone or Oath stone - Maybe, Holed stone that was a gatepost at some point - certainly. It was moved from the West of Kings castle aka Tor hill on the east side of Wells. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by Bladup : The holed stone at Wells and Mendip Museum, Standing stone or Oath stone - Maybe, Holed stone that was a gatepost [see photo] at some point - certainly. It was moved from the West of Kings castle aka Tor hill on the east side of Wells. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by AngieLake : The holed stone on the lawn of the museum, showing its proximity to Wells Cathedral. (A very bright sunny evening in May 2013.) I believe the other large one glimpsed in the background was the one with the dedication to Harry Patch. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wells and Mendip Museum
Wells and Mendip Museum submitted by AngieLake : This interesting stone stands on the lawn in front of the Museum. (2 comments)

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Re: Original site of Wells and Mendip Museum's Standing Stone by Anonymous on Tuesday, 29 March 2016
The stone is the Hokerstone, moved from Tor Hill by Balch to preserve it. The current curator of the museum has researched it and published the research on the museum website here
I hope this answers your questions
Gill Pettitt
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Re: Wells and Mendip Museum by enjaytom on Thursday, 02 January 2014
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Angie Lake,
The Megalithic Portal News Summary dated 20th September 2013: -
The stone column situated in the lawn in front of the Mendip Museum, Wells, Somerset has a clear hole through the stone near the top. In my other comments elsewhere I identify a number of "Holed Stones" such as Men-a-tol and the Keiller stone at Avebury, others in Orkney, Sweden, Ireland and Wales all of whom have myths and legends associated with them concerned with health, well being and fertility. On a more modern vein, the Vikings's sagas cite the goddess Eyr or Eir as the good health deity.
Is there a story associated with the Mendip Museum stone?
Neil L. Thomas.

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    Re: Wells and Mendip Museum Legend regarding holed stone. by AngieLake on Thursday, 02 January 2014
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    Hello Neil

    It will be interesting to see if you get more info from the Museum, as all I know is either what they told me briefly in the email (see comments here) or from Googling.
    The Museum was closed that evening so I could not go in to ask. (I believe Andy added the description of the Museum's contents.)
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Street View of Wells and Mendip Museum's Standing Stone by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 September 2013
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Rotate right a bit to see Wells Cathedral.

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Re: Original site of Wells and Mendip Museum's Standing Stone by AngieLake on Tuesday, 17 September 2013
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This was a good link for info on prehistoric Wells:

http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/hes/downloads/Somerset_EUS_Wells.pdf

There were some useful maps, too.

Further 'Googling' found that there was a limestone quarry on Tor Hill that closed in the 1950s, called [Finlay Breton] Torhill Quarry so maybe it was found near there? It is now an industrial estate.
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Re: Original site of Wells and Mendip Museum's Standing Stone by AngieLake on Tuesday, 17 September 2013
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I received a reply from the Museum today in answer to my query about this standing stone:

"Dear Angie, Many thanks for your email.

The stone was rescued from Tor Hill, where they also found some bones. The stone is believed to be prehistoric.

I hope that answers your question?

Kind regards,
Christine Quinn"

This threw me a bit as I was wondering if she meant Glastonbury Tor, but looking at Streetmap, there is a Tor Hill just east of the town.
(Approx ST557457).

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