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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Leicestershire and Rutland

Submitted by Spud on Saturday, 24 June 2017  Page Views: 18560

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Country: England County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Leicester  Nearest Village: Newton Linford
Map Ref: SK5247111651  Landranger Map Number: 129
Latitude: 52.700000N  Longitude: 1.224964W
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
 5 Ambience:
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2Not Good
1Awful
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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
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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Marko visited on 17th Mar 2018 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Debate over whether this site is a genuine standing stone or something some rogue Boy Scouts erected (if so then i hope they got a badge for it?!). Very easy to find : 2 to 3 minute walk behind the toilet block as described elsewhere!

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Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by Stefan Spencer : Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone Information required please. Where is this? (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone in Leicestershire. Although this 5 foot stone was certainly erected by humans Bob Trubshaw (see talk next month in Leicester) is of the opinion that it was a bunch of 20th century Boy Scouts! He doesn't elaborate on his reasons however.

Situated just outside Bradgate Park in Leicestershire at Grid Ref SK524116, turn left at the public toilets and enter the wood to it's left. The stone stands right in the middle by a large Holly bush. Several recumbant stones surround the stone and there is a possible cist just to the west (other side of the bush).

Note: Bradgate Park excavation open day, Sun 2nd Jul 2017, where they have found a nationally significant Upper Palaeolithic site and prehistoric earthworks, see the comments on our page for more details. Lots more British Archaeology Festival events coming up, more next week
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Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by enkidu41 : SK524116 (Leicestershire and Rutland) Used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by ESgt : Dowsing the stream of running water under the forest floor. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by ESgt : Stones further away across the clearing in the centre of the wood. Some of which are long stones laying flat. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by ESgt : More stones near to Hunt's Hill standing stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by ESgt : Stones close to the Hunt's Hill standing stone.

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by ESgt : Side elevation of Hunt's Hill standing stone.

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by ESgt : Front view of Hunt's Hill standing stone

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by Marko : Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone (1 comment)

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by NickyD : image The area was littered in suspicious looking stones. Image copyright: stonesearcher, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by Bladup : Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone.

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Bradgate Park Archaeological Tour, Sat, 08 Jul 11:00 AM by Andy B on Thursday, 22 June 2023
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Bradgate Park Archaeological Tour, Sat, 08 Jul 11:00 AM

After 5 years of excavation by the University of Leicester we now know a lot more about the Park’s archaeology. Join archaeologists Peter Liddle and Prof Richard Thomas to visit the sites and hear about the discoveries, which range from a hunter gatherer site from the end of the Ice Age to a medieval park lodge and the ruined mansion of the Grey family, reputed to be the childhood home of 9 days queen, Lady Jane Grey.

Newtown Linford car park, Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, LE6 0HB,

Meet at the .park gates. Car parking £3 (up to 3 hours)

Sat, 08 Jul 11:00 AM
Duration of event
c. 2 hours

Additional fee information £4

https://www.archaeologyuk.org/festival/festival-event-listing/bradgate-park-archaeological-tour.html
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Video Talk: Bradgate Park, a Strategic Palaeolithic Hunting Location by Andy B on Friday, 18 October 2019
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Video Talk: Bradgate Park: a Strategic Palaeolithic Hunting Location
Lynden Cooper, Project Officer, University of Leicester Archaeological Services
A talk filmed at the Society of Antiquaries in London



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsgf9LHNz3M
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Bradgate Park excavation open day, Sun 2nd Jul 2017 by Andy B on Saturday, 24 June 2017
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Bradgate Park excavation open day
East Midlands | Leicestershire
Sun 2nd Jul 2017
Periods: Prehistory, Medieval, Georgians and Victorians

Visit the University of Leicester excavations close to Bradgate House to see the results of the third year of a five year programme of investigation into the history of the Park. Guided tours of the excavations and Bradgate House will go on throughout the day along with many activities for all the family, including demonstrations, archaeological materials to handle, re-enactors and exhibitors.

https://www.facebook.com/BradgateParkFieldschool
https://twitter.com/DigBradgate

Website: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/projects/bradgate-park/bradgate-park-fieldschool

Event details
Organiser: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
Booking details: You do not need to book this event
Fee details: This event is free to attend
Dates and times
Sun 2nd Jul 2017 11:00-16:00
Additional times information
Parking charge of £4 on the day.

Bradgate Park,
Newtown Linford car park,
LE6 0HB
http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/events/2950
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Bradgate Park Upper Palaeolithic site and prehistoric earthworks by Andy B on Saturday, 24 June 2017
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Bradgate Park Fieldschool (2015-2019)
This major student training and research excavation project focuses on the upland landscape of Bradgate Park, Leicestershire.

Bradgate Park is located 10km north-west of the City of Leicester and covers an 830-acre recreational park which attracts c. 400,000 visitors each year. The landscape is designated as a SSSI and is described by Natural England as “one of the finest remaining examples of ancient parkland in Leicestershire” containing some of the “last remaining fragments of wet heathland in the County”.

The park is first documented in 1241 (as a deer park) and is known primarily as the location of one of the first unfortified brick-built aristocratic houses in England (c. 1520), which was later the birth place and childhood home of Lady Jane Grey: the ‘nine days queen’.

However, recent excavations of a known late Upper Palaeolithic open site (c. 15,000 years old) situated atop the north spur of a gorge overlooking the River Lin has revealed an in situ stone tool assemblage consistent with Creswellian activity. This is one of only a few sites in the UK dated to this period and is thus of national and international significance.

A LiDAR and subsequent walkover survey of the park, conducted in 2014, identified over 250 potential archaeological features not documented within official records.

Some of these earthworks appear prehistoric in date and include terracing and a ditched enclosure, which suggests that human occupation and interaction with the landscape has a longer history than previously recognised. Despite the prehistoric and historic importance of the Park, there remain many unanswered questions, which this joint venture with ULAS, hopes to answer. The project runs for five seasons from 2015-2019.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/projects/bradgate-park/bradgate-park-fieldschool
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Re: Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone by davidmorgan on Thursday, 26 November 2015
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From ESgt:

In June 2015 Hunt's Hill Standing Stone was visited by East Midlands Dowsing Group

Describing it:
"The site is overgrown with trees and shrubs, the roots of which have disturbed and broken many of the nearby stones. The dowsers felt there was a mixture of placed stones and incorporated rocky outcrops in what would once have been a clearing. There was a smaller, disturbed, stone opposite the standing stone giving a possible circle diameter of about 20 yards, sloping downwards to the west".
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Re: Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone by enkidu41 on Thursday, 12 August 2004
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Although this 5' stone was certainly erected by humans Bob Trubshaw ( see Intereactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland) is of the opinion that it was a bunch of 20th century Boy Scouts! He doesn't elaborate on his reasons however.
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