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<< Our Photo Pages >> Fordstreet Puddingstone - Marker Stone in England in Essex

Submitted by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 18 January 2005  Page Views: 6176

Multi-periodSite Name: Fordstreet Puddingstone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.272 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Essex Type: Marker Stone
Nearest Town: Colchester  Nearest Village: Stanway
Map Ref: TL921269
Latitude: 51.907504N  Longitude: 0.791252E
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.
 4 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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Fordstreet Puddingstone
Fordstreet Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 : 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. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone / Glacial Erratic in Essex

Large stone in the back garden of the "Maltings". Site No. 22 on the Puddingstone Trail.
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Re: Fordstreet Puddingstone by Yaffingale on Monday, 19 September 2016
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Re the one by the pub - Much of the paint now seems to have rubbed off, revealing a plain, flat reddish-brown stone, with no smaller stones embedded, so doesn't look much like a puddingstone.
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    Re: Fordstreet Puddingstone by willowman1 on Monday, 19 September 2016
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    Thanks for that Yaffingale. It's a few months since I visited Ford Street and took that photo, so even more paint has obviously come off since then. Turns out to be yet another of Dr. Rudge's 'puddingstones' that isn't actually a conglomerate at all.
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Re: Fordstreet Puddingstone by trui on Wednesday, 09 July 2008
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Ernest Rudge in the 1950's made a list of the stones he found on what he described as the 'Puddingstone Trail'. He also explained that not all the stones he found on the trail were puddingstone, though the majority are [or were - many have been lost without a trace] There are actually 2 stones at Ford Street that Rudge mentioned. One still rests up against a building near the ford, on the north side of the road near the pub and it painted over so you cannot tell its type.
The other in the Maltings i have observed in the back garden, now part of a rockery and completely out of view [so,having asked permission] it turned out to be about a foot or so in size, kind of egg shaped & of the suffolk variety of conglomerate, dark brown in colour [thus full of iron content, without the pretty decrotive pebbles of the Hertfordshire 'motherstone' type].
Trui
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    Re: Fordstreet Puddingstone by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 09 July 2008
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    We have a very interesting article about "The Puddingstone Trail" here on the Megalithic portal, written by one of our ex admins, Thorgrim. Follow the link below to see this.

    http://www.megalithic.info/article.php?sid=2146412012
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      Re: Fordstreet Puddingstone by trui on Wednesday, 09 July 2008
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      thecaptain, thanks - were already aware of this article previously, which I must get round to replying-updating or indeed reviewing some time, in view of my own research on this subject. There is certainly a link between all Rudges listed stones. For one example few stones can be found south of the trail. Apart from puddingstones in Northwest Essex
      there are none in the remaining areas, other than the material found built into churches.
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