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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Rudston Monolith
Country: England County: Yorkshire (East) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Bridlington  Nearest Village: Rudston
Map Ref: TA0980367743  Landranger Map Number: 101
Latitude: 54.093884N  Longitude: 0.322574W
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:
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
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bishop_pam visited on 30th Jun 2023 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5

TheCaptain visited on 12th May 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5 A day to Scarborough from York, so made sure of a visit to this and Wetwang on the way. I was expecting to be slightly disappointed after all the French monster menhirs I have seen, but in actuality I was impressed. Its huge, and obviously well shaped. Only disappointment is the metal hat, and that its "caged" in the churchyard, rather than being wild and free. Also another small stone and cist grave in the corner of the churchyard. Lovely.

drolaf visited on 15th May 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 short walk from road by church

SumDoood visited on 24th Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 I visited at sunset 24 March and on the next day's sunrise. Some background reading on the area will help the visitor to appreciate the very considerable importance of this stone within the wider environment. I recommend "Inscribed Across the Landscape - The Cursus Enigma" by Roy Loveday.

cactus_chris visited on 28th Apr 2016 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

cactus_chris visited on 28th Sep 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

kthdsn visited on 24th May 2014 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5

BrownEdger visited on 12th Apr 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Awesome!

Majick123 visited on 17th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 In my mind, not as impressive as the Devils Arrows in Boroughbridge, However this is a Massive Stone, and the Pictures taken really doesn't show the sheer vastness of the stone! It really would have been an amazing place to be when it was erected, standing on top of the hill, looking all over the landscape with the myth laden Gipsey Race stream 100 yards away.

SimonBlackmore visited on 27th Dec 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Was this really dragged or carried by glaciers?

TheWhiteRider visited on 20th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

lscollinson visited on 1st Jan 2008 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Just mindblowing in its sheer height.

RedKite1985 visited on 1st Jan 2000 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

SidT visited on 1st May 1993 - their rating: Cond: 4 My Grandfathers family were from near this area, he moved back there for his later years from Kent. He brought me and my dad to this amazing place when we visited him, I was 16, it was around the beginning of summer of 1993. I was blown away! Shocked by its size! That's Massive! I cried out in amazement. Grandad? I asked, who put this here? I don't know he says, no one does, what? how can no one know? I said. I looked at the top just below the lead and noticed grooves knowing instantly that this was rain erosion and said, how long has this been here? A long time he said, I can see that I said. What are all these graves doing right next to it? (I said angrily/upset), I know he said. They shouldn't have done that I said, this might have been important. Why has a church been built so close to it in the first place I also asked? Then I walked up and touched it, the instant my hand touched it I took a deep sharp breath in and pulled my hand straight back after feeling something, don't ask me what. I touched it again and leant on it with both hands as hard as I could then pushed myself back off it to an upright position. My Grandad said to me, What did you just do to that stone? (like I really had done something to it), I was trying to push it over I said, I knew it wouldn't go but had to check, that is 'king solid! I will never forget it. I wouldn't have wanted to have been involved in any building on top of, moving stones of or making up any ridiculous devil stories about any place like this, never mess with anything to do with cursus's unless you want curses, is it just coincidence these two words are so similar? I think not.

BolshieBoris visited on 1st Aug 1984 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

Alma23 visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Access: 5

Andy B visited #2 in our rundown of favourite standing stones (and pairs) in Britain

ATBlackcat Bladup coin TimPrevett rldixon Orcinus kelpie have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.13 Ambience: 4.07 Access: 4.87

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Standing Stone in Yorkshire. The tallest standing stone in Britain, at just under 8 m in height, with a circumference of 5m. The pointed top is protected with a metal cap. Dragged from Cayton or Cornelian Bay 16 Km to the north, the stone weights an estimated 40 Tons. The stone was erected in approximately 1600 BC, and its depth into the ground may be as much as its height!

There is a smaller gritstone in the nearby cemetery, along with a slab cyst grave. An oft-quoted legend recounts how the Devil threw the stone at the church and missed.

Plan of the surrounding area showing the site of surrounding cursuses, shown up by air observation in 1962. Cursus A revealed flints and pottery sherds suggesting a late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age date, tallying with the period of greatest megalith building.

Access: In All Saints' churchyard in the village of Rudston, 8 Km West of Bridlington, a Yorkshire seaside town. Visible from the main road. Leaflet for sale in the church (With more information about the church than the stone!).

Appearance spoiled rather by protective "hat" made of lead.

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this standing stone - see their entry for Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with a photograph, a drawing from 1873, another from 1988, and local folklore.

Further information can be found on Pastscape">www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=79482">Pastscape Monument No. 79482 and Historic England List ID 1013621.
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Rudston Monolith with Angie
Rudston Monolith with Angie submitted by AngieLake : This is lil' ol' me standing by the Rudston monolith, at about 7.15pm on 13th May 2004. (I'm 5'4" to give you an idea of its awesome size.) The 'flower lady' at the church kindly took the photo for me (using my camera), and also told me that they usually keep an info leaflet about the stone in the church. She kindly offered to send me one, so I gave her the postage and left 50p for it. The chu... (12 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : Rudston monolith taken 11th july 2010 (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : Rudston Monolith and Moon in Infra red (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : Rudston Monolith in Infra red taken 11th july 2010 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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rudston monolith submitted by rldixon : Rudston church and monolith taken in infra red (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by StoneLee : Boxing Day 2013 - early morning. (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : The Small stone in the graveyard at Rudston with its big brother in the background taken 29-3-2011

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Rudston Monolith submitted by blingo : check out the page below for all the info needed on this impressive stone...... http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=142

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Rudston Monolith submitted by Bladup : The Rudston Monolith.

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Rudston Monolith submitted by DavidRaven : The lead-capped stone. (4 comments)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : A bit of Arty stuff I did from one on my photographs (3 comments)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : Rudston monolith taken in Digital Infra Red 11th july 2010

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Rudston Monolith submitted by DavidRaven : It's huge! Situated in the grounds of the village church that usurped the site, it remains as a link to older times. At over twenty five feet tall and twenty six tons, the menhir is the largest standing stone in the country. It's in- yer-face and yet subtle. Brooding over the graveyard. Sir William Strickland of Boynton found as much of the stone buried as appears above ground (and a lar... (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by Bladup : The Rudston Monolith.

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Rudston Monolith submitted by coin : Picture of the monolith with part of the church in the foreground

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Rudston Monolith submitted by childrenofthestones : What a whoppa! September 2022 (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by Antonine : The stone is thought to weigh 80 tons and to extend below ground by another 25ft. Photo taken in 2011

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Rudston Monolith submitted by ainsloch : Magic lantern slide, probably early 1900's (2 comments)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by majick123 : The Rudston Monolith with Rudston Church behind

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Rudston Monolith submitted by rldixon : Victorian style photo of the monolith taken 21-3-2011 or was that 21-3-1889 ? ;-) (2 comments)

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Rudston monolith submitted by rldixon : Rudston monolith in Infra - Red (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by bec-zog : Rudston ; the often overlooked, small standing stone . (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith submitted by bec-zog (1 comment)

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Rudston Monolith and Church open for Heritage Open Days by Andy B on Wednesday, 06 September 2023
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The Church of All Saints sits on a small hill on the line of the Roman road from York to Sewerby.

The oldest part of the Church is the tower which is Norman and dates from 1100. It was built by William Peverel who was lord of the manor. The Font is also Norman and has a diapered pattern of Circles and crosses. The Church was enlarged in the 13th century, by adding south and north aisles. The pillars in the Nave are Early English in style. There are a number of memorials and interesting windows which are largely 20th century as the originals were destroyed by a land mine. The author Winifred Holtby was born in Rudston and is buried in the Churchyard
The Monolith which is the tallest standing stone in Britain and has been here for over 4000 years. The origin of the stone is on the North Yorkshire Moors. Nearby to the west of Rudston a Roman villa was discovered in the 1930s and excavated, three mosaic pavements were lifted and are on permanent display in the East Riding Museum in Hull.

Friday 8 September: 0900-1800
Saturday 9 September: 0900-1800
Sunday 10 September: 0900-1800
Monday 11 September: 0900-1800
Tuesday 12 September: 0900-1800
Wednesday 13 September: 0900-1800
Thursday 14 September: 0900-1800
Friday 15 September: 0900-1800
Saturday 16 September: 0900-1800
Sunday 17 September: 0900-1800

No booking required

Limited parking nest to the Church with some wheelchair access.

30 mins to 1 Hour Refreshments will be available on the 12th, 13th, and 15th between 1400 and 1600. There is an award winning community run Pub in the village The Bosville Arms. Contact for the day: Volunteers in the Church
www.rudston.org.uk/history.aspx

More: www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/rudston-monolith-and-church
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Rudston Monolith - Video by TimPrevett on Monday, 12 September 2022
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I got here in January after two decades of knowing about it, managed an afternoon, and a solitary sunrise visit. Really magnificent place, worth taking the time and looking around. Inside the church has an interactive landscape model on the area's history. A video from my visits on YouTube:

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The Neolithic Ritual Landscape of Rudston - P.A.Clark by Andy B on Sunday, 10 June 2018
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This paper will consider the Early Neolithic ritual landscape surrounding Rudston in
East Yorkshire. This area is a richly multi-period landscape centering on the spur of
chalk topped by the Rudston monument overlooking the dramatic eastward bend of
the Gypsey Race. This landscape may rival Stonehenge in its ritual significance
within the British Isles. Unfortunately, due to its nature, this paper will only be a very
cursory and preliminary consideration.

From the global perspective, life's biological foundations and its natural environment
would seem to be the strongest influences. Yet, for the individual, life is also shaped
by society and the culture it has adopted. In both nature and society processes and
structures are repeated. The key distinction being that cultural forms are repeated
wilfully and not merely due to lack of change. Through their adopted ways of life
humans have shaped the natural environment itself.

Archive link to PDF (slow)
https://web.archive.org/web/20111221071558/http://www.archaeology.look-here.co.uk/GypseyRace/RudstonNeo/files/RudstonPaper.pdf
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Rudston Landscape Map and the Gypsey Race stream by Andy B on Tuesday, 19 December 2017
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Rudston Landscape Map
Showing the distribution of sites around the Great Wold Valley
and along the course of the Gypsey Race stream

The Gypsey Race is a 'winterbourne' or intermittent stream that flows through the chalk landscape of the Great Wold Valley area of East and North Yorkshire. The stream's erratic behaviour flowing both above and below ground, suddenly changing direction as well as disappearing in some years has been a source of wonder and legend for many years, perhaps even back into prehistory. Evidence for the possible importance of the Gypsey Race to the prehistoric population of the Wolds can be gathered from the number of monuments that either follow the course of the stream or are clustered on the higher grounds on either side of its shallow valley.

http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/rudstonmap.htm
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Pit-digging, Occupation and Structured Deposition on Rudston Wold, Eastern Yorkshire by Andy B on Friday, 04 August 2017
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Pit‐digging, Occupation and Structured Deposition on Rudston Wold, Eastern Yorkshire - Jan Harding, Oxford journal of archaeology, 2006

[Frustratingly there are no proper locations given in this paper so I've attached it here - MegP Ed]

Excavated Neolithic pit clusters, like those found on Rudston Wold in eastern Yorkshire, have often been seen as the remains of occupation sites.The features are interpreted as possessing practical roles, including their use for storing grain, and the incorporated material culture regarded as casually discarded waste. More recent interpretations, however, have emphasized these features’ functional unsuitability, rather seeing pit-digging, and the depositionof ideologically-charged objects, as a deliberate attempt to inscribe meaning across a landscape.

These two different approaches are considered by a detailed examination of the Peterborough Ware and Grooved Ware associated pits, dug-out swallow-holes and hollows of Rudston Wold. It is argued that their lithic assemblage demonstrates a conventionality best understood as representing occupation at and around the features, themselves once part of small-scale dwellings, but that this material nonetheless resulted from deliberate and purposeful acts which changed during the later Neolithic.

The material culture in the fills of these pits were not, however, the product of casual discard. Their incorporation resulted from deliberate and purposeful acts of deposition, as argued by Thomas, who considered the burying of the residues of occupation as a structured strategy whereby meanings and memories were inscribed across a landscape. As such, the incorporation of this material invoked both choices and ‘simple principles of combination and exclusion’. A notable example of this process was the apparent proscription on the deposition of animal remains.
[proscription = to banish or forbid something - really why the silly words! - MegP Ed]

These acts of deposition make most sense if we consider that all material, whether inanimate or not, would have probably been seen as imbued with their own spirit or vital force. Their burial, or return to the earth, was a means of celebrating, renewing or even renegotiating the relationships between the objects themselves,the cosmological properties responsible for their creation, and people’s life-cycles as they moved seasonally around a landscape. It was also a means of providing the thread of continuity between past and future generations, a process recently described, in the context of the Balkans, Neolithic and Copper Age, ‘as an exchange with the ancestors’

https://www.academia.edu/1376577/ PDF (Free registration required)
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Re: standing stone NE of Rudston Monolith by drolaf on Monday, 15 May 2017
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The small standing stone is a bit of a mystery. It is 40m NE of the main monolith, and is on the same orientation, about NNE. Other stoneware has been dumped by it: a cist (from a BA barrow?) and a large stone (Roman?). One side is entirely covered in white algae, but there seem to be cup marks (but only an expert could say if not erosion). It's a nice lozengey kind of shape.
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Re: Rudston Monolith by Rich32 on Wednesday, 05 October 2016
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Re: Rudston Monolith by briankilb on Friday, 14 February 2014
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Is there any correlation between Rudston monolith and the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge? The latitude isn't exactly the same, but not far off.
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    Re: Rudston Monolith by drolaf on Sunday, 11 June 2017
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    It's not been un-noticed that the Rudstone and Boroughbridge are on almost the same latitude, that also includes the Derwent crossing at Whitwell and Hedon Howe, Duggleby barrow, and the mouth of the Gypsey race.

    Going westwards -Brimham, the henge north of Grassington. Kilnsey crag
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Wind turbine in Hockney country could spoil views of England's tallest standing stone by Andy B on Tuesday, 02 October 2012
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A proposed 200ft wind turbine in the heart of 'David Hockney country' is facing strong opposition as it is believed it could spoil views of the tallest standing stone in England.

A farming business wants to install a 218ft turbine within half-a-mile of Rudston, East Yorkshire, reputedly England's oldest inhabited village and home of the 25ft Rudston monolith.

The stone, which dates from the early Neolithic to the early Bronze Age, stands at the centre of a complex of archeaological sites including henges, settlements and barrows.

More in the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9578706/Wind-turbine-in-Hockney-country-could-spoil-views-of-Englands-tallest-standing-stone.html

with thanks to Tim Prevett for the link
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Rudston Monolith Poem by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 August 2010
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RUDSTONE MONOLITH

in abeyance i stand
profanity obscuring my perception
you mock my wisdom with your bricks and mortared stones
cap my soul that i the tallest shall remain
in leaden tomb to stand the pouring rain
4000 years
that you could slow the wheel of time
the seasons spell your ruin
the pouring rain is mine

take shelter in your shameful cave
where windows steal the light of day
fantastic visions
that cannot warm its cold and sightless stones
where shadows live in peace and life in penance
that place of death where nothing living grows
forsake the Sun and Moons eternal rhyme
and sacrifice my flowers to your shrine

i am the measure
fecund in earth and sky
i am the witness
that cannot tell a lie
i am a messenger
the future to behold
a leaden stain
the last remains
of those who were so
cold

a poem by phil middleton
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Re: Rudston Monolith by holger_rix on Saturday, 20 March 2010
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Streetview
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Re: Rudston Monolith by cbrblade on Wednesday, 20 June 2007
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We have just returned from Yorkshire having had a week-end break and came upon this stone purely by chance. We were amazed at it’s size and how long it has been there. We both just stood there looking at it in silence. The other thing that surprised me was that in all that time there are very few signs of graffiti or vandalism. Did anyone notice the inscription by an IW date 1492 I think it says. That alone makes you wonder. Such a monumental stone in such a quiet little village….

george Walsha 20/06/07
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    Re:the IW by Anonymous on Friday, 05 August 2022
    hello . well it was'nt me... may have been there re past life but wasn't on the santa maria... ilone winters
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Re: Rudston Monolith by Anonymous on Wednesday, 20 June 2007
We have just returned from Yorkshire having had a week-end break and came upon this stone purely by chance. We were amazed at it’s size and how long it has been there. We both just stood there looking at it in silence. The other thing that surprised me was that in all that time there are very few signs of graffiti or vandalism. Did anyone notice the inscription by an IW date 1492 I think it says. That alone makes you wonder. Such a monumental stone in such a quiet little village….
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Re: Rudston Monolith by Anonymous on Monday, 25 September 2006
In reply to feorag on Thursday, 21 September 2006; I hadn't been aware of the implications at the time of our conversation so didn't ask relevant questions unfortunately. The way he described it led me to believe it could well have been man-made rather than natural erosion. I'll probe (his memory, not the socket!) should I be in his company again. Regards, (Same Anonymous as 20 September 2006)
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Re: Rudston Monolith by feorag on Thursday, 21 September 2006
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Could the socket have been added to hold a cross? There are examples of christianised menhirs in France, so something similar might have happened here.
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    Re: Rudston Monolith by Anonymous on Thursday, 28 February 2008
    The socket is about 15 ins. deep and the top is rounded off.
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Re: Rudston Monolith by Anonymous on Wednesday, 20 September 2006
The 'unofficial Rudston historian' whom I visited last week is the man who replaced an older lead cap with the current one. He told me that there is, in the very top, a socket that he remembers as being about 5 inches in diameter. I didn't ask about the depth. Rather than fill it with potentially harmful mortar, he chose the capping to keep out the weather (and incurred the wrath of some authority or other).
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Re: Rudston Monolith by expatpete on Sunday, 28 May 2006
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The lead "hat" at least shows that someone in the past was concerned about the stone weathering! A small price to pay ( "PhotoShop" it out if
you want it in all its glory ! ) :-)
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    Re: Rudston Monolith by Anonymous on Saturday, 01 August 2009
    I am the vandal who put the cap on the Monolith to preserve it when I replaced the lead on the church roof to cover the dowel which at some time had been cut in the top of the Monolith to take a cross?.
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Re: Rudston Monolith by kelpie on Thursday, 23 June 2005
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There are photos available on my site here

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Re: Rudston Monolith by Andy B on Thursday, 16 June 2005
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The author of the Rudston Village Web Site
http://www.rudstonnews.supanet.com/page7.html writes

Dinosaur Foot Prints!
Recently a colleague at work, (he's a geologist) informed me that there is a new theory with regard to the Rudston Monolith. The stone has dinosaur footprints on it! If you look closely at it on one side you can see a set of marks that do appear to be diagonally staggered.. It may be that millions of years ago, our monolith was a humble bit of mud on a river bed.. And that a lizard had left it's marks in that mud. Could it also be that the Bronze Age people who selected, shaped and transported the stone did so because of these marks? Who knows, but it's interesting to theorise!
Perhaps someone can get us a photo?
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Re: Rudston Monolith by Anonymous on Monday, 07 June 2004
AngieLake writes: I stayed at Dishforth, near Boroughbridge with its equally spectacular Devil's Arrows. Earlier that day I'd visited York Minster and the lovely grounds of Castle Howard. I nearly didn't go the extra distance to Rudston, but was glad I made the effort. The long, quiet B1253 wends its way through gently-rolling open farmland, spattered (in May) with patches of stunning bright yellow rape fields, so it was a magical journey to an unbelievable ancient sacred site, not far west of Bridlington and the coast, with a return journey that followed the setting sun."
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Re: Rudston Monolith by kelpie on Saturday, 24 February 2001
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I revisited the site last weekend, a bright sunny day, good for photographs. I had not noticed the other standing stone in the corner of the churchyard on my last visit but sought it out this time. It stands near the wall among a collection of stone coffins and bits of stone bric-a-brac. Two stones at the same site suggests there were once more, but why leave this one? I can understand the monolith remaining in place, it is imposing and impressive but this stone stands only about 3 feet high. It has probably been moved to its present location but where from is anyone's guess.
BTW I believe it's in the East Riding, not the North.
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