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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bulford Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Wiltshire

Submitted by Bladup on Thursday, 08 January 2015  Page Views: 8206

StonehengeSite Name: Bulford Stone Alternative Name: Tor Stone
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)

Map Ref: SU17364318
Latitude: 51.187586N  Longitude: 1.752984W
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
3 Ambience:
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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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3 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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Bulford Stone
Bulford Stone submitted by Bladup : The Bulford Stone with the barrows to the south west in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A prone sarsen stone at Bulford, about 2 km to the east of Durrington Walls on the other bank of the Avon. The 2.8m-long stone lies within a ring ditch just north of a large cemetery of round barrows.

Resistivity survey identified the course of the ring ditch and located further anomalies within it. The ring ditch’s eastern half was excavated to reveal the base of a hole in which the sarsen had once stood. On its west side, the stone hole was flanked by a line of small post holes which are interpreted as having held anti-friction posts to enable the stone to be erected from the east side with minimal difficulty. Such posts are well known from excavations of stone holes at Avebury.

To the immediate east of this stone hole there was a shallow pit filled with a cairn of broken flint nodules and sarsen flakes. The shape of the pit mirrors that of the stone and is most likely the base of the hole from which the sarsen was extracted in prehistory and raised vertically in the adjacent stone hole just 2m away. This would indicate that sarsens were distributed over Salisbury Plain as well as the Marlborough Downs 20 miles to the north.

The standing stone was probably erect when a 30m-diameter ring ditch with internal bank was constructed around it. There was no burial at its precise centre but a small cut near its centre contained an unusual burial of a small 'Food Vessel' with cremated remains of a small adult (possibly female) and selected unburnt bones from a large adult (probably male). In one case, cremated bones were packed within an unburnt vertebra. Grave goods were placed either side of the pot and, on the east side, were protected within a box-shaped structure of tabular flint. These included a wild boar’s tusk, flint tools, bone spatulae and a miniature ‘megalith’ carved from limestone.

On the west side there was a transparent rock crystal. This item is highly unusual and is likely to have come some distance, perhaps from South Wales or from as far away as the Alps. Later on, a second larger Food Vessel cremation was inserted into the north side of the burial. 'Food Vessels' date to c. 2300-1900 BC and it is likely, but unproven that the stone was erected before the burial.

The implications of the Bulford discovery are considerable. Stonehenge was not the only standing stone monument on Salisbury Plain and there may have been many smaller installations of single stones. [of course we now know about Bluestonehenge as well, thanks to the later research of the Stonehenge Riverside Project - MegP Ed]

In William Stukeley’s time, a pair of standing stones were recorded at Luxenborough Plantation, perhaps erected within Coneybury henge. Early Ordnance Survey maps show the Bulford stone to have been just one of many in the area between Beacon Hill and Durrington Walls. Further investigation should reveal whether it was one of a line of standing stones. [Note this test paragraph seems to have been changed in the interim report that was eventually published. The published version refers to a potential row of standing stones aligned with the Ridgeway - MegP Ed]

Source: Stonehenge Riverside Project 2005 Interim Report
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Bulford Stone
Bulford Stone submitted by Bladup : The Bulford Stone looking north. (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Bulford Stone
Bulford Stone submitted by Bladup : The large Bulford Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bulford Stone
Bulford Stone submitted by Bladup : The barrows just to the south west of the Bulford Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bulford Stone
Bulford Stone submitted by Bladup : The Bulford Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Bulford Stone by Anonymous on Saturday, 08 June 2019
There is a similar stone near the river below Totterdown House --would this be a similar former standing stone ?
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Re: Bulford Stone by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 04 February 2014
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