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Photo Pages: Merton Stone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Norfolk
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Submitted by trui on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 Page Views: 4556
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 Site Name: Merton Stone Country: England County: Norfolk Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Thetford Nearest Village: Merton
Map Ref: TL895991
Latitude: 52.556735N Longitude: 0.793938E
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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 | | 0 | no data |
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Natural Stone / Glacial Erratic in Norfolk
This is undoubtably the Largest glacial eratic boulder of Necomian Sandstone, to be found in East Anglia, quite possibly transported from Scandinavia by glacial action.
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 Merton Stone submitted by trui
The stone has got a folktale legend concerning it reported by Michael Burgess who met with the grandchild of the local Lord of the manor, owner of the land. The tale recalls that 'if the stone were to be removed it would cause waters to rise up to flood and cover the whole earth'. This is similar to Essex farmer's stories but a little reversed since it was the belief that any large stone found in
 Merton Stone submitted by trui
The boulder is hidden from sight by vegetation with only the top exposed to view when only a matter of yards away. Located in remote Norfolk on the verge of M.O.D. land, within the parish of the stone - used for target practice, so dont stray too far!
You may well soon hear machine guns or get spotted by regular surveillance aircraft patrols. It's position is just yards off the straight cross c
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Re: Merton Stone (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 | | trui wrote: Did anyone see Alan Titchmarsh on UKTVHISTORY channel - 582/583 on 12/12 7-9pm on subject of glacial eratics? | [ Reply to This ]
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by Anonymous on Sunday, 20 January 2008 | Merton Stone,
During the war, when my mother, Marjorie Moore, dragged us to see the erratic, the dell was devoid of vegetation - rabbits I suppose - and the stone very prominent. I don't think it even had moss on it.
Marjorie had done a course in geology at college, but I don't think she had any idea that it might have come from Scandinavia. Jenny Gladstone, my cousin, may be able to confirm this. I will ask her.
Michael Moore | [ Reply to This ]
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by Anonymous on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 | Tony
The Geological Society of Norfolk would like to try and get the Merton erratic RIGS (Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Site) status. Could you please say where you found the information on it being Necomian Sandstone?
thanks Jenny Gladstone | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Merton Stone (Score: 1)
by trui on Wednesday, 30 January 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | jenny gladstone - what a great name
i am very pleased to hear that the society is keen to register this stone as a RIGS SITE.
You can find it just south, by about 100yds of a [east/west]track, lying in kind of large hollow-gulley [rather than a ditch] by the edge of a field, east from the route of the Pedders Way. It displays mossy-type vegitation on its surface, which eliminates some types of stone. It is very unusual - unlike others i have come across. I actually read somewhere that it was this type - and thus quite possibly of scandinavian/norweigan origin.
please do investigate and confirm.
keep up the good work
suggest you make contact with the land-owner Lord [Grey] Walsingham
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Re: Merton Stone (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 | | I visited the site this month (July 2010), easy to find and not as scary as one would imagine from other posts! | [ Reply to This ]
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