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Natural PlacesSite Name: ThundersleyCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.932 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Essex Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Southend Nearest Village: Thundersley
Map Ref: TQ782886
Latitude: 51.568111N Longitude: 0.569811E
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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Two stones, the one by the church porch is called the "Bird Stone" and there is another about 50 yards from the church by the road. The significance is that Thundersley denotes a sacred grove to Thunor (Thor). The church is very likely to have been built on the site of the pagan grove and one or both of the stones could have had ritual use. Set high on a ridge overlooking the Thames estuary, this place would have been one of the first places to be settled in this otherwise wet and marshy landscape. Is it at all possible that these stones (incredibly rare in stoneless Essex) could have been regarded as Thunor's "thunder stones" ie thunder-bolts?
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