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<< Our Photo Pages >> Labourer's Stone - Marker Stone in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 16 August 2012  Page Views: 7416

Multi-periodSite Name: Labourer's Stone Alternative Name: Pucklechurch Manor Boundary Stones
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Marker Stone
Nearest Town: Marshfield  Nearest Village: Doynton
Map Ref: ST73057251
Latitude: 51.450927N  Longitude: 2.38922W
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.
4 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
4

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4clydesdale7 visited on 15th Aug 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Does this tie in with similar stones, the TW Stones, at King's Woods Congresbury in North Somerset? Same height and shape.

Labourer's Stone
Labourer's Stone submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The obverse of the more westerly boundary stone (Vote or comment on this photo)
Just west of Toghill House Farm on the line of The Ridgeway (Saxon name Ealdan Weg) over the years the OS 1:2500 Maps for 1882;1903;1921;1973 have shown a line of three stones along what is now a public footpath running down a steep scarp towards the village of Wick

Only two of the stones are easily found - both bear the inscription 'JW' or perhaps 'IW' - they pose some questions -

What is certain about them is that they delineate part of the southern boundary of the Ancient Saxon Manor of Pucklechurch - the stones are referred to in the Grant by King Eadred in AD 950 of the lands of Pucklechurch Manor to the Abbey of Glastonbury - behind this grant lies a wonderful story -

The lands used to belong to Aedgifu (King Eadred's mother) who claimed after Eadred's death that the lands had been stolen from her -

The story begins with the appointment of Dunstan (later St Dunstan) as Abbot of Glastonbury by King Edmund (Eadred's brother) in AD 946 - Edmund and Eadred were brothers and grandsons of King Alfred the Great (of the cakes!) -

Shortly after making this appointment Edmund was killed whilst staying at his hunting lodge at Pucklechurch (the remains of which are behind the Star Public House in that village) by a man named Leofa - Eadred was then consecrated King in his brother's place but thereafter was laid low by illness -

Four years after Eadred 'made the gift' of 25 hides (parcels of land) in Pucklechurch to Dunstan's Abbey, Dunstan took over management of the incapacitated King's estate and is reputed to have signed in the name of the King several more charters benefiting the Church - after Eadred died in AD 955 Eadwig (Edmund's son and the new King) quarrelled with Dunstan and Dunstan was sent into exile - Aedgifu petitioned Eadwig unsuccessfully for the return of her lands - it is not known whether they lived happily thereafter

Dr GB Grundy in his superb work The Saxon Charters of Gloucestershire (1935) claims that the Stone nearest to Toghill House Farm is known as the Labourer's Stone (probably a spot where Labourers were hired and fired in medieval times) - the Saxons called it 'Esnes Stan' - a very easy site to visit by car


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Labourer's Stone
Labourer's Stone submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The obverse of the reputed Labourer's Stone (Vote or comment on this photo)

Labourer's Stone
Labourer's Stone submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The face of the more westerly boundary stone showing the inscribed 'IW/JW' (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Labourer's Stone by guile on Thursday, 16 August 2012
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