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<< Our Photo Pages >> Epping Bury puddingstone - Marker Stone in England in Essex

Submitted by willowman1 on Sunday, 25 September 2016  Page Views: 2520

Multi-periodSite Name: Epping Bury puddingstone
Country: England County: Essex Type: Marker Stone
Nearest Town: Epping  Nearest Village: Epping Upland
Map Ref: TL44790322
Latitude: 51.709038N  Longitude: 0.094175E
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.
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
0No data.
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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Epping Bury puddingstone
Epping Bury puddingstone submitted by willowman1 : Puddingstone at Epping Bury Farm, once a part of Dr. Rudge's 'Puddingstone Track' (Vote or comment on this photo)
Marker Stone in Essex

This is a boulder that used to be included in Dr. Ernest Rudge's 'Puddingstone Track', but some time between 1962 and 1983 he apparently decided that it was a little too far south of his favoured line for the route.

It stands close to the south-west corner of the house at Bury Farm, which itself stands within the site of the former Eppingbury, the most ancient manor house of Epping. I was told locally that there used to be a monastery on the site, but that's not true. The tale probably came about because the manor was once owned by the canons of Waltham Abbey.

Dr. Rudge believed (on no evidence that I can find) that the stone had once stood a little further north, at the meeting-place of another old manor, Priestbury. The medieval court leet was held beneath a maple tree near Cobbin's Bridge, shown as 'Cut-maple' on the Andre and Chapman map of 1777.

This is a 'true' puddingstone, approximately 1.5m x 1m x 1m, and is on private property. I luckily visited on a day when the owners were out, and the old gardener very kindly allowed me access.
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Epping Bury puddingstone
Epping Bury puddingstone submitted by willowman1 : Dr. Rudge's own picture of the Epping Bury puddingstone, from 'Mystery of the Stones' by Lilian Rudge, in 'Essex Countryside' magazine, Sept. 1962, Vol.10, No.68, p.468. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Epping Bury puddingstone by Yaffingale on Tuesday, 27 September 2016
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Thanks, Willowman. That's extremely helpful. I've been trying to track down Rudge's/Cooper's "Lost Trackway" book but, as I'm sure you're aware, it's out of print. I'm after a list of all the alleged puddingstones he tracked, and there are a number of gaps on this site. For example, I couldn't find numbers 4-8, 18-20 and a number of others. Any ideas on how I might get hold of a copy? Thanks, again.
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    Re: Epping Bury puddingstone by willowman1 on Tuesday, 27 September 2016
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    You're right, there are many on Rudge's final track missing from this site. I've been thinking of adding in the rest myself, but I doubt that I'll ever get round to it. As far as the 'Lost Trackway' goes, PM me, I can definitely help.
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Re: Epping Bury puddingstone by Yaffingale on Monday, 26 September 2016
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Not sure if my comment earlier posted properly. A good find. I was asking if you can explain what you mean by a "true" puddingstone. I notice that a lot of the stones listed under "puddingstones" on this site seem to all look quite different, and many don't look like conglomorates. However, I'm not an expert and so I was wondering how we're defining a puddingstone here. Many thanks.
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    Re: Epping Bury puddingstone by willowman1 on Monday, 26 September 2016
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    Hi Yaffingale.

    Well, there are many types of conglomerate with all shapes and sizes of pebble stuck in a natural cement-like matrix. But 'true' puddingstone is that found naturally in Hertfordshire, where there are occasional outcrops. In that, the pebbles are black and rounded, and the matrix is so much harder that, when it splits, the split shears right through the pebbles rather than around them. Also, 'true' puddingstone is called silcrete, because it usually has a white(ish) matrix rather than the iron-rich brown of ferruginous conglomerate (ferricrete). There can also be rough pebbles in a calcium-rich matrix called calcrete. Sandstone is also actually a conglomerate, but it has a granular composition without pebbles. Dr. Rudge was very liberal with his definition of puddingstone, and as I'm finding in my investigations into his 'Puddingstone Track' , some don't even remotely fall into that category.
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