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<< Our Photo Pages >> Druid's Stone (Bungay) - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Suffolk

Submitted by hamstermoon on Wednesday, 12 October 2022  Page Views: 6479

Natural PlacesSite Name: Druid's Stone (Bungay) Alternative Name: Devil's Stone, Giant's Grave
Country: England County: Suffolk Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bungay
Map Ref: TM3366689739
Latitude: 52.455583N  Longitude: 1.437720E
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
5 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.
5 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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Druid's Stone (Bungay)
Druid's Stone (Bungay) submitted by hamstermoon : Druid's Stone Image copyright: Hamstermoon (Ruth Kenyon), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
One of the very few well-known stones of Suffolk stands in St. Mary's churchyard. Called variously the Druid's Stone, Devil's Stone or Giant's Grave, it was in folklore the scene of Druid rituals. Apart from being rather rough and mossy, it could at first glance be mistaken for just another gravestone, but it's actually an embedded granite glacial erratic 60cm x 30cm x 76cm high.

In the early 1920s it was referred to as a "fallen monolith", but was re-erected on its original site in about 1925.

One theory proposed it had been taken from the ruins of Bungay Castle for use as a headstone. The legend of the Druid's Stone says that after having danced about it, or knocked upon it, 12 times, young girls would place their ears against the stone to hear the answers to their questions or wishes. Another version states that children would dance around it 7 times on a certain day of the year, then wait for the Devil to appear.

Source: Hidden East Anglia:

Local writer W.A. Dutt wrote that "some consider it to be a Ley or Direction Stone..."

See also The Northern Antiquarian's page for Druid’s Stone, Bungay, Suffolk for local folklore.

Ref: Dutt, W.A., The Ancient Mark-Stones of East Anglia, Flood & Sons: Lowestoft 1926. (see below for links)
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Druid's Stone (Bungay)
Druid's Stone (Bungay) submitted by hamstermoon : Druid's Stone Image copyright: Hamstermoon (Ruth Kenyon), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dutt, W.A., The Ancient Mark-Stones of East Anglia by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 October 2022
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Ref: Dutt, W.A., The Ancient Mark-Stones of East Anglia, Flood & Sons
Scans here:
https://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/repubs/dutt_markstones/pages/index.html
or
christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Ancient-Mark-Stones-of-East-Anglia-Their-Origin-and-Folklore.pdf (dodgy link so I'm not linking to it but the PDF is there to download)
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