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<< Our Photo Pages >> Nettlebed Puddingstones - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by ocifant on Monday, 28 March 2005  Page Views: 8783

Natural PlacesSite Name: Nettlebed Puddingstones
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.335 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Oxfordshire Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Henley on Thames
Map Ref: SU7018186797
Latitude: 51.575679N  Longitude: 0.988666W
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
4 Ambience:
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4Good
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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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Nettlebed Puddingstones
Nettlebed Puddingstones submitted by ocifant : The stones are next to a bus shelter, and an information board gives some basic history of the stones, referring to the puddingstone trail. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Two pudding stones found in the courtyard of the 16th century Bull Inn in Nettlebed High Street in Oxfordshire.

From the information board alongside the stones:

These two pudding stones were found in the courtyard of the 16th century Bull Inn in Nettlebed High Street. Resembling blocks of weathered concrete, the stones were formed from accumulated deposits of loose boulders and flint pebbles which solidified naturally into conglomerates or breccia.

At one time, an information plaque positioned next to one of the stones stated: "This stone is known and registered in the British Museum as a 'pudding stone'. It is one of a series of similar stones used as signposts by the Ancient Britons and standing in a line from Grime's Graves in Norfolk to the Thames at Pangbourne. It is about 4000 years old."

Subsequent research revealed no record of the stones at the British Museum and the matter was referred to the Natural History Museum. It was then discovered that the stones were not thousands of years old, but millions. The Oxfordshire County archaeologist also considered it unlikely that they had been used as signposts, as stated on the old information board. So what was their purpose?

The board then continues, making reference to Rudge's 1950's publication "The Conglomerate Track" before suggesting that the stones were used as mounting blocks for horse riders, but concludes that pudding stones rank among the "most ancient surviving works of primitive man".
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Nettlebed Puddingstones
Nettlebed Puddingstones submitted by willowman1 : A portion of white-painted puddingstone, 25cm x 15cm x 40cm high, still remaining to the right of the courtyard entrance at the former Bull Inn, Nettlebed. Evidence that there were once three stones at the inn, not two. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Nettlebed Puddingstones
Nettlebed Puddingstones submitted by willowman1 : A 2017 view of the puddingstones on the village green at Nettlebed. The one on the left is 62cm x 53cm x 50cm high, while the one on the right measures 110cm x 90cm x 50 cm high. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Nettlebed Puddingstones
Nettlebed Puddingstones submitted by ocifant : These stones lie alongside the main road through the village (A4130). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SU7086 : Junction of A4130 and The Green from east end of High Street by Roger Templeman
by Roger Templeman
©2017(licence)
SU7086 : Pudding stones at Nettlebed by Graham Horn
by Graham Horn
©2010(licence)
SU7086 : Information Board on Nettlebed Puddingstones by David Hillas
by David Hillas
©2022(licence)
SU7086 : The Old Kiln by Bill Nicholls
by Bill Nicholls
©2011(licence)
SU7086 : Nettlebed Bottle Kiln, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire by Edmund Shaw
by Edmund Shaw
©2014(licence)

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Re: Nettlebed Puddingstones by willowman1 on Friday, 29 September 2017
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Unless they are completely different objects, these two puddingstones were never originally in the courtyard of the old Bull Inn, nor were they alone. There are photographs from about 1955 (copyrighted, so I can't post them here) showing three puddingstones beside the archway entrance to the coach-yard. Two, painted white, either side of the arch, and a third, unpainted, slightly further to the left below the bay window of the bar. In September 1961 Dr Ernest Rudge, discoverer of the alleged 'Puddingstone Track', saw one in the coach-yard, and the one below the bar window. He didn't mention the one on the right, the remaining fragment of which measures 25cm x 15cm x 40cm high. It was slimmer than the other two, but I think an attempt was made to remove it in the 1960's because it hampered access to the newly-made car park in the courtyard. The remaining two were moved to the green after the Bull Inn closed in 1991.
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