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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 16 August 2012 Page Views: 7416
Multi-periodSite Name: Labourer's Stone Alternative Name: Pucklechurch Manor Boundary StonesCountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Marker Stone
Nearest Town: Marshfield Nearest Village: Doynton
Map Ref: ST73057251
Latitude: 51.450927N Longitude: 2.38922W
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 |
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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.
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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