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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Butstone (Banwell)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.212 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Somerset Type: Marker Stone
Map Ref: ST398590
Latitude: 51.326898N Longitude: 2.865374W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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In the heart of Banwell village is the
Butstone, a large conglomerate boulder
lying at the junction of Winscombe
Road and Church Street.
Received wisdom suggests it is a mounting block, a relic form the days when four-legged transport held sway. Its blocky nature rules out the possibility of it being a degraded milestone but its position and the fact it has survived in the heart of a busy village suggest that it has a more interesting past than an aid for over- weight, gouty yeoman farmers. Indeed, it looks very much like a mark stone, those ungainly lumps beloved by Alfred Watkins who insinuated them into his ley line system.
Whatever the true origins of markstones they have an ancient pedigree and it would be fasci- nating to discover more about the Butstone’s past, and what part it played in the sacred landscape of the village, for the stone is literally yards from the old healing spring of Adam’s Well, less than 100m from the huge and pow- erful spring which gave the village its name, and close to the parish church of St Andrew, founded in the 7th Century as part of a monastic establishment.
Source - listed as an extant stone in Phil Quinn's article The Forgotten Stones of
West Mendip, in 3rd Stone Issue 25 (Spring 1997) page 15
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