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Multi-periodSite Name: Great Bedwyn PuddingstoneCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Marker Stone
Nearest Town: Hungerford Nearest Village: Great Bedwyn
Map Ref: SU278645
Latitude: 51.378876N Longitude: 1.601954W
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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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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