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Multi-periodSite Name: The Written Stone Alternative Name: The Ralph Radcliffe StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.015 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Longridge Nearest Village: Grimsargh
Map Ref: SD6262237892
Latitude: 53.835928N Longitude: 2.569463W
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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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The inscribed stone, known locally as ‘The Written Stone’, stands at the side of the lane close by the entrance to Written Stone Farm, originally called Cottam House. The B6243 Longridge to Hurst Green road runs past the lane where the mysterious Written Stone is located.
It became known as ‘the cursed stone’ after a murder took place here. Later, very strange and ghostly things began to manifest when the farmer decided to try and move it and put it into use as a "buttery stone" but, he had to return the stone to its original resting place, when ‘all hell let loose’, according to local legend. The stone is set into the bank above a wall close by the entrance to Written Stone farm, on the left-hand side of the lane, which was also known as Boggart Lane.
In recent times it has been suggested that the stone originated on the fells to the northwest, where it may have formed part of a stone circle, and was possibly a pagan altar stone; another suggestion being that it was a lintel stone from above a doorway, and yet another theory being that it was an outlier. But all this is just conjecture. The Roman road linking the forts of Ribchester and Lancaster intersects with Written Stone Lane.
For more details and references see the site page on my Journal of Antiquities for The Written Stone, Grimsargh.
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