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The Puddingstone Track: Deconstructed

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Introduction

 

The Birth and Growth of a Theory

 

About Dr. Rudge, and about puddingstone

 

Along the Track: county by county (preface)

 

 

Norfolk:

 

Suffolk

 

Essex

 

Herts:

 

 

 

Bucks:

 

 

 

 

Oxfordshire

 

Berks & Wilts

The Discarded section: Heacham to Grime's Graves

Grime's Graves to the Suffolk border

 

 

 

 

Part 1: Cheshunt to Tyttenhanger

Part 2: St. Albans

Part 3: St. Michael to Bovingdon

 

Part 1: Ley Hill to Church Street, Chesham

Part 2: St. Mary's church, Chesham

Part 3: Puddingstones in Chesham

Part 4: Pednor Road, Chesham to Turville

 

 

The Age and Purpose of the Track

 

The Track in Context: the fading myth of the long-distance trackway

            1. The Track or the Way?

            2. The Icknield Way

            3. The Ridgeway

            4. The Jurassic Way

            5. The North Downs Way and Pilgrims' Way

            6. The Harroway

            7. The South Downs Way

            8. Back to the Track

 

Unconvincing Evidence: the 'pagan' stones

            1. The churches, the puddingstones and the Track.

            2. The letters of Pope Gregory.

            3. Shrines and idols.

            4. A pragmatic view

 

Issues of Geology and Topography

            1. Random distribution

            2. The Reading Beds and the proto-Thames

            3. The Topography of the Track

 

The Flawed Search for Puddingstone

            1. A Painstaking Search?

            2. A Confusion of Stones

            3. A Matter of Choice

 

Puddingstones That Aren't, and other failings

            1. "One kind of stone only"

            2. Point and Counterpoint

            3. End of the Road

 

Bibliography and source material

              Introduction