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<< Our Photo Pages >> Great Bedwyn Puddingstone - Marker Stone in England in Wiltshire

Submitted by Thorgrim on Friday, 21 January 2005  Page Views: 8297

Multi-periodSite Name: Great Bedwyn Puddingstone
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Marker Stone
Nearest Town: Hungerford  Nearest Village: Great Bedwyn
Map Ref: SU278645
Latitude: 51.378876N  Longitude: 1.601954W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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
3
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Great Bedwyn Puddingstone submitted by Thorgrim : The Puddingstone Trail from Grimes Graves to Stonehenge. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone / Glacial Erratic in Wiltshire

A large boulder near the railway station. Site No. 103 on the Puddingstone Trail. The puddingstone trail now becomes very difficult to follow as it now enters Wiltshire where erratic sarsens are very common.

Dr Rudge firmly believed that the Trail was a Neolithic trade route that went on to Stonehenge. After 50 years of painstaking research he wrote "This is as far as I am able to follow the trail of boulders, for age and infirmity - I am approaching my ninetieth birthday - demands human forces that I am now incapable of commanding, and I must leave it to a younger man to close that tantalising short gap of a few miles, to the ford over the River Avon, towards which the line of boulders is undoubtably pointing... And so to Durrington where the traveller will stand at the end of the Avenue and see before him the solitary sentinel of Stonehenge, the Heel Stone." Dr Rudge died in 1984 and so perhaps his work will now be completed by members of the Megalithic Portal.
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SU2764 : Great Bedwyn by Andrew Smith
by Andrew Smith
©2008(licence)
SU2764 : Great Bedwyn - The Cross Keys Public House. by Chris Talbot
by Chris Talbot
©2009(licence)
SU2764 : Great Bedwyn - Roundabout by Chris Talbot
by Chris Talbot
©2009(licence)
SU2764 : Old Dame's Doorway by Des Blenkinsopp
by Des Blenkinsopp
©2017(licence)
SU2764 : Great Bedwyn. High St and Church St junction by Robert Eva
by Robert Eva
©2017(licence)

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Re: Great Bedwyn Puddingstone by willowman1 on Wednesday, 21 November 2012
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There's no large boulder at this grid reference now, but there are some smallish loose rocks on the grass verge in the High Street at the same position. Possibly fragments of the original?
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