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<< Our Photo Pages >> South Lopham Ox-Foot Stone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Norfolk

Submitted by willowman1 on Monday, 03 October 2016  Page Views: 2576

Natural PlacesSite Name: South Lopham Ox-Foot Stone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.739 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Norfolk Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bury St Edmunds  Nearest Village: South Lopham
Map Ref: TM05178098
Latitude: 52.388387N  Longitude: 1.013614E
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.
3 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
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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
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South Lopham Ox-Foot Stone
South Lopham Ox-Foot Stone submitted by willowman1 : Another view of the Ox-Foot Stone from the 1970's. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Norfolk

The 'Ox-Foot Stone' is an oblong slab of weathered sandstone 1.2m long x 1m wide x 15cm high. When I saw it in the 1970's, it was in the garden of Oxfootstone Farm, but a newspaper reported in 1994 that it has since been placed under a table in the conservatory. Once, it stood in a meadow called Oxfootpiece, and was moved to several places in the parish before reaching the farm sometime in the 1800's. At the corner on the front edge there is supposed to be the imprint of a cow's hoof, which it has been said is actually the impression of a fossil bivalve.

A legend connected with this stone has two well-known variants, the first being that of the fairy cow that came regularly to the village to be milked during a great period of dearth. When the drought was over, she stamped her hoof hard on the stone upon which she had been standing, and then vanished. Francis Blomefield first recorded this tale in 1736, but didn't use the word 'fairy'.

The second variant employs the age-old folk motif of milking with a sieve, the cow this time a quite ordinary (sic) creature that normally supplied the village. One night a local man drunkenly went to the cow armed with a sieve, and milked her until she gave blood. She then bellowed with pain and kicked the stone so hard that her hoof-print was left behind.

Often the villain in this old tale is an evil witch, but a local man's poem of 1893 says that this time it was a passing juggler. Another tale says that an ox with a large thorn in its foot embarked on a rampage through the village before finally stamping its hoof so hard on the stone that it left a print.

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this now destroyed standing stone - see their entry for Ox-Foot Stone, South Lopham, Norfolk, which describes the same folklore as above.
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Re: South Lopham Ox-Foot Stone by Anonymous on Thursday, 07 May 2020
I lived in the house as a 6 yr old i walked on this slab every day
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