Significant Stones

Hidden East Anglia:

The STONE INDEX

Below is listed alphabetically, by town or parish, every odd stone and glacial erratic that I know about in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

((The section for Essex only includes those already featured on this site as having a legend, or being in a 'significant' location. The county is otherwise excluded because there are hundreds if not thousands of glacial erratics littering the region. Better - and more local - people than me have been trying to catalogue them for over a century.))

Many are linked back to their entry in 'Significant Stones' or to their entry in the gazetteer of legends. At the end is a list of sources where I first found some of the others referenced or pictured, while others have been noted by myself on various field trips.

I have no doubt that some of the smaller stones (e.g. at Salthouse, Bildeston and Framlingham) have no importance whatsoever, and have just been placed to protect the corners of houses etc - but I have included them anyway for the sake of completeness. I'm sure there are hundreds more all over the region.

Some are said to be part of the supposed 'Puddingstone Track', discovered and elaborated upon by the late Dr. Ernest Rudge during the 1950s and 60s. This is supposed to be the remnant of a route used by flint traders in the Neolithic period, stretching all the way from Stonehenge to the north Norfolk coast. Every marker stone on the route is supposed to be a type of puddingstone or 'conglomerate' rock, but I know from experience that some are not. Like many others, I'm far from convinced that the 'Track' really exists, and have explored it at great depth on this website in the feature entitled 'The Puddingstone Track: Deconstructed'.

A viewer of this site, Adi Raschkewitz, brought to my attention an article entitled 'Mark Stones in Aylsham' by Avril Fox. This appeared in the Journal of the Aylsham Local History Society in 1994 (Vol.4, No.1, p.4-8.) Ms Fox listed numerous stones in and around the town, some of which she felt might have been positioned in a significant way, possibly marking some ancient boundary. Adi has very kindly gone out and located, measured and photographed some of these stones for me, a few of which I'll feature here.

At the Buttlands (TG19172685) is a nicely-rounded, slightly conical stone 60cm x 45cm x 35cm high.

In Pegg's Yard, a roughly triangular stone 56cm x 33cm x 25cm high, almost certainly not in its original position.

A large ovoid rock 65cm x 31cm x 35cm high at the corner of Oakfield Road and Burgh Road (TG19472684.)

Against a corner wall at the junction of Millgate and Mill Row (TG19672742) is a smooth, rounded grey stone 40cm x 35cm x 35cm high, with another close by, hidden by undergrowth.

Outside the Cooperative store, a squat rectangular block 40cm x 22cm x 16cm high.

Others still exist at the entrance to Red Lion Yard, outside 50 Cawston Road, at the junction of Pound Lane and Cawston Road, and by the entrance to Abbot's Hall in Drabblegate One recorded in Hungate Street now seems to have gone.

Thanks very much to Adi for the photographs and dimensions.

TG347334: On Google Street View I've seen five largish boulders against the front of a house in Walcott Road near the junction with Abbey Street, and at TG349333 a smallish rounded rock by a gatepost in Priory Road. None of these are embedded, and all look like recent decoration.

TG174431: Boulder covering grave in churchyard, once one of a pair (other possibly still at TG167428) in priory grounds, with attached ghost story.           

TG174431: Boulder half-buried in bank outside wall at south corner of churchyard; another against north wall within churchyard, though probably not on original site.

A granitic rock, about 2' 6" (76cm) long, was recorded long ago at Bessingham Church.⁶² If it still exists, it's buried somewhere beneath the extensive undergrowth that encircles the churchyard.

TM486930: Two lumps of limestone are embedded in the verge outside Beech Farm Barn, as seen here on Street View.

TL782949: Layer of non-pebbly dark brown carstone goes partially around the church tower. Said to be a site on the so-called 'Puddingstone Track'.⁴

TL783947: At the easternmost end of a track just south of Cranwich church, the word 'Stone' was marked on OS maps until at least 1905. This was just where the track used to bend and head across the fields, but it wasn't on a parish boundary. The 'grey erratic' that I thought I'd discovered at this spot on Street View has turned out to be no more than a tree stump, unfortunately.

A letter in a local newspaper in 1974 mentioned "a curious old stone" with a square hole in the top in the churchyard here.³⁷ I used to think it might have been an erratic boulder that had been turned into the base for a cross. However, I visited in July 2018 and it's actually the socket stone of a medieval cross that has been 'scooped out' to become a font - and the 'hole' is circular, not square.

In the 1950s Dr. Rudge of 'Puddingstone Track' fame reported a "white siliceous conglomerate" rock in the lane behind the Mill Stores.⁶ The map reference he gave actually leads one to the lane next to Mill House (now a care home) in Litcham Road, where there are in fact 3 small stones at the corner, none of which are conglomerate. This misled me for years until June 2016, when I revisited Gayton and found the exact spot in Grimston Road, at the rear of the former Mill End Stores (TF731193). The stone is no longer there.

There is what appears to be a smallish flinty conglomerate loose on the surface left of the entrance to the old mill, but it hasn't always been there.

There are apparently other puddingstones in the grounds of Gayton Hall.⁴⁰

TM524044: Two smallish stones in Church Lane, & 1 'standing stone' now vanished, near churchyard wall.

TF720224: Another 'puddingstone' was noted here by Dr. Rudge,⁹ and this is actually a small lump of pebbly carstone (52 x 30 x 21cm high) at the foot of the wall of No.1 Massingham Road. Rudge's own map references were way off, but I was able to track it down from his typewritten notes. It's obviously not in any 'original' position, as it's sat on a slightly-raised concrete step in a blocked-up doorway. It looks rather similar to a stone that was once only a few metres away, outside the Old Bell Inn, in a 1910 photograph available here. The Old Bell is now a private house, and many small lumps of dark brown carstone are used as decoration around the verges and in the flower beds.

At the back of the block of buildings containing the Old Bell, at the junction of Bell Road and Massingham Road, is a sarsen oddly built into the base of the wall.

I have pictures of two smallish triangular stones here at the corners of buildings, but locations unknown.

TF679372: At this grid reference, Dr. Rudge recorded another puddingstone, behind the schoolhouse, which would be Heacham Infant & Nursery School.⁹ However, the stone was reported to him by C.H. Lewton Brain, and I suspect Rudge never actually saw it, because the author Shirley Toulson found such a puddingstone behind the former schoolhouse, now a private house, at TF679379.⁷⁰

TF680379: An erratic boulder, possibly of Norwegian granite, outside Rose Cottage on the Green, not far from the church.⁷⁰ This measures 80 x 70 x 33cm high.

Not far away are two other rocks against a wall, at the junction of Church Lane and Hunstanton Road. The left one measures 43 x 36 x 26cm high, and the right 60 x 28 x 40cm high.

TG391261: 1 large & 2 smallish boulders against frontage of cottage, shop, & Swan pub at staggered crossroads near church:

Sandstone boulder outside cottage, 1.2m x 51cm x 35cm high.

Sandstone boulder outside shop, 58 x 43 x 32cm high.

Boulder, possibly also sandstone, outside pub, 66 x 28 x 45cm high.

TG393273: Pointed sandstone erratic about 50cm high at corner of house, at crossroads of Ingham Lane, Long Lane, Water Lane and an unnamed track heading west.

TG388260: Smallish stone 365m from crossroads, embedded by gate of cottage on the east side of Town Road towards Stalham. Still there, but now hidden by long grass.

TF691328: Rudge said that there are puddingstones under walls & buttresses of the church tower, & another half-buried in turf at west end of church.⁴  I visited here in June 2016, and saw small non-pebbly carstone blocks mostly on the north side, but they're not puddingstone. The half-buried stone is now mostly exposed, about 5m from the west wall. Again, this is plain carstone, 70 x 50 x 30cm high.

Charles Lewton Brain described here "a largish rough boulder set up on end."⁴⁷ I found this about 18m from the south wall of the church, being an embedded sarsen boulder 50 x 50 x 50cm.

TL7312294729: Large ovoid boulder embedded on grassy verge in angle between wall of 26 Crown Street & curved wall at entrance to Hall Farm driveway.

TF742012: In the north-west corner of the gardens at Oxburgh Hall is the 'Roman Oyster Stone', a large boulder made up of concreted oyster fossils, dragged up from the river Wissey in the 1960s.⁵⁰

TF723368: There are two sandstone erratic boulders, one on either side of the gate to High House. The one to the left measures 50 x 53 x 35cm high, and the one to the right is 75 x 52 x 50cm high. While I was photographing these, I found a third stone about 7m along from the gate. This is almost buried, the little I could see measuring 55 x 55 x 28cm high. Perhaps coincidentally, they are very close to the turning to Magazine Cottage, which is directly on the line of the Peddar's Way Roman road.

Heap of stones said to cover drowned sailors, said to be haunted.

TF684342: Rudge said that there was another stone belonging to his Track in the wall of a house in this village.¹¹ This I have now tracked down to a small, much-eroded lump of rock at the corner of No. 25 Lynn Road. In reality, it's nothing more than a 10cm high stub of old, poorly-made concrete, with hardly any aggregate in it. There's another of similar size near the corner of Stockley's pharmacy.

A slightly larger block of the same stuff can be seen at the corner of Hope House, a little further along the road. It's a wonder that Rudge missed this one - but none of them are conglomerates.

Just across the road from Hope House is the Hollies Bed & Breakfast, with two sarsens embedded against the garden wall.

TF819090: Smooth black rock at corner of Gill's Boutique, Lynn Street, a little way east of the previous stone.

c.TL868831: 4 boulders once in Minstergate just north of Town Bridge, All but one are now gone due to redevelopment. Others once lined one side of St. Nicholas Street. Said to be part of the 'Puddingstone Track'.¹² Beneath the street name plate, where Minstergate curves to join St. Nicholas Street, the last and smallest of the four 'puddingstones' is embedded into the pavement. It measures 85 x 40 x 30cm high, and is actually non-pebbly sandstone or siltstone, not puddingstone.

TL868830: Two possible puddingstones which I saw in the 1980s I erroneously recorded as being in Minstergate, but I now find they were actually either side of the gateway to Bridge House, a little further south.

The one on the left side is definitely a conglomerate, measuring 85 x 65 x 25cm high.

The one on the right looks like it has been roughly shaped into a block 40 x 40 x 40 cm, and seems to be either some kind of conglomerate, or possibly old concrete.

c.TL868829: Two more puddingstones were once recorded by Dr. Rudge near the old Maltings on the opposite side of the river (again now lost due to redevelopment), just east of Town Bridge.¹² The lane in which they stood still exists, but the exact site of the stones is now covered by one corner of the Heath Court social housing block.

While looking around the area, I found a small sandstone erratic embedded against the wall of this very lane, 50 x 25 x 37cm high.

A picture from 1912 shows two more boulders, type unknown, close to the old Maltings site. They are shown against a fence around the north side of Peacock's Commercial Hotel, which became part of the now-demolished Anchor Hotel. In 1984, a local writer said that "until recently there were a great number of these stones in the vicinity, but very few remain today".⁹⁷ Further down the road there appears to have been one (or possibly two) smaller boulders at the corner of a house which is now Wong's Taste of China.⁷⁴

TL868830: Beside the haling path a few metres south-west of Town Bridge are three large sandstone boulders, each between 65cm and 80cm long. The number of rocks now or once in this area around the bridge makes me wonder if all of them, including Rudge's puddingstones, weren't in fact dredged up from the riverbed here.

TL873825: Shirley Toulson went looking for Rudge's puddingstones that I've noted above - but she went to the wrong river crossing. She claimed to have seen another puddingstone at the second of the three Nun's Bridges, visible from the north-eastern bank.⁷¹ Maybe it was there in the 1970s, but there's no chance of seeing it now, as the vegetation is too dense.

c.TL864830: Beside the Brandon Road going west out of Thetford used to stand Canons' Lodge Cottages. These were demolished in the mid-1960s, but an earlier photograph shows a medium-sized erratic boulder embedded against a gate-post outside the Cottages. The spot is now occupied by the western end of Cannon Garage's lot.⁹⁹

TL861768: Puddingstone at corner of barn at West Farm. Said to be a marker on the so-called 'Puddingstone Track'.¹⁴

TM422907: The Barsham Trysting Stone now in Northgate garden, once at crossways near Barsham Hall.

TM421907: The Brampton Stone now in Northgate garden, originally from Brampton village, plus another glacial erratic originally from Burgh St. Peter. Possibly also another known as the Redisham Stone.

There used to be two smallish stones at the bottom of Hungate Lane, but these are now gone.

Small square stone at corner of wall in Tannery Score, off Northgate.

Smallish black stone noted by me at corner of Bec Cottage in Chapel Street.

Series of small stones in village, said by some (though not by Dr. Rudge) to be part of the so-called 'Puddingstone Track' - but all are sarsens, not puddingstone. There are 2 (including an impressive mammilated sarsen) at the corner of a house in Broad Street, 1 at the base of a wall next to the bridge over the Box river (moved from the other end of the bridge in 2009), 2 at the corner of Butchers Lane, 1 a little further along the same lane, 1 in the grassy bank at the corner of Church Street and Stone Street Road, and 4 more along Swan Street.^{15, 16} Some pictures can be seen here and here. There are 3 more sarsens a little further south in Stone Street, at approx. TL964396. Up to 2012, Roger Loose of Boxford has located around 130 sarsens, and some puddingstones, spread all over the parish, many of them turned up by ploughing, and most seeming to originate in the soils of the river Box and its tributaries. He has also noted others around Groton, the village immediately to the north.¹⁰¹

TL968387: Dr. Rudge records an 'unconfirmed' puddingstone in a wall at Peyton Hall,¹⁷ and was told of another, removed during World War Two. Once at a turn in the parish boundary at TL968379.⁵⁹

TM122464: Large boulder, supposedly giving its name to Gippingstone Road.

TL980479: Alleged puddingstone (actually sandstone) partly buried in foundations on north side of church tower.¹⁸ My photo dates from 1975, but I revisited in July 2017, and the stone has now been removed. Only a cement slab remains to show where it once was.

TL987471: Large boulder once by door of Chelsworth Common Farm. Both rocks said to be part of so-called 'Puddingstone Track'.¹⁸

A quartzite glacial erratic boulder is shown in a photograph from 1960, on the south side of Belstead Brook, near Copdock Mill.⁶⁴

TL858747: Stone supposed to be on Culford Heath, said to be a marker on the so-called 'Puddingstone Trail'.¹⁴

TL755513: A large (probably erratic) stone stands on the edge of the former moat that surrounded Goymer's Farm, of which only one disused barn remains.⁸⁹

TM283633: Years ago I photographed a pair of smallish stones embedded at the corner of a house where Brook Lane leads west off the B1116, but house and stones are all gone now.

TL960416: Large squared-off sarsen with a mammilated face set as a mounting block outside a house beside the path to St. Bartholomew's church.¹⁰¹

Just across the road from the Hartest Stone is a smaller, less rounded rock, standing near the entrance to Place Farm. This seems a much more recent placement.

TL990528: A later addition to the 'Puddingstone Track' said to have been found at Cross Green.²⁵

On August 9th 2016 I visited Bodney Farm (now mostly derelict) and found a small flint conglomerate boulder 35 x 33 x 20cm high behind a barn. It clearly wasn't in its original position, as it was being used along with other small rocks and ornaments to line the edge of a grassy verge. Like many of Rudge's 'Puddingstone Track' boulders, this would be ridiculously small to be a markstone.

c.TM161437: A large sarsen block is said to be embedded in a wall of the 18th century vaults below the old stables of the former Stoke Hall.⁸⁸

TM164447: Large black upright stone against wall of dental surgery, opposite McGinty's, at the very narrow end of Tower Ramparts, close to the junction with Northgate Street. On Street View HERE.⁸⁰

TL999442: Pitted conglomerate stone set in pavement on north side of main street.⁷ A broken edge shows that this is definitely puddingstone, measuring 102 x 72 x 20cm high at the back.

TM000441: Small rounded stone near watersplash. Both stones here said to be part of the 'Puddingstone Track',⁷ although this one is definitely sandstone, that sparkles in sunlight because of tiny quartz flecks in its surface. It measures 40 x 30 x 25cm high.

TM551938: Smallish stone at corner of Crown Street.

TM549938: Two small rocks at either end of wall (now a garden fence) at junction of Church Road & Wesley Street.

Small black-painted stone once close to wall in Clapham Road (road mostly now gone).

TM21356508: According to Cautley in 1938, at St. Peter's church, "many of the buttresses, including those of the tower, are built on a foundation of huge glacial boulders".²⁷ 'Many' and 'huge' are exaggerations; there are large sarsens under only four buttresses, including just one at the tower. The latter is under the south-west corner, and measures 120 x 86 x 21cm (photo left.)

At the south-east corner of the nave, a sarsen 110 x 50 x 10cm is mostly covered by a layer of cement. Two buttresses at the nave's north-east corner also have sarsens; one is about 87 x 35cm, but barely visible beneath soil and grass. The other measures 66 x 25 x 7cm (photo left.)

A very curious collection of sandstone rocks was discovered in the south-west part of Mutford Big Wood in March 1870, not far from the road to Carlton Colville. After being partially uncovered by a gamekeeper they were fully excavated, and appeared to be arranged in a semi-circular shape, reminiscent of a 'Druidical' stone ring on a small scale. These "strangely-shaped and strangely-standing stones" were columnar in appearance, embedded vertically in the earth, with some seeming almost man-made. However, a visiting professor pronounced them to be a natural, albeit very peculiar, formation.⁸⁴

Near Nayland, there was supposed to be an oval sarsen boulder 2.3m long, "at the corner of a crossroad from Bures to Colchester".⁶⁸ Exactly where this could be found I don't know, since Nayland is miles from any road between those two places.

Before 20th century changes to the road and stream, a mammilated sarsen 0.5m x 1m high stood embedded on the bank beside the A134, close to Pop's Bridge (TL969339).⁶⁸

Alleged sarsen stone once at Baileypool Bridge, at Grimstone End.²¹

c.TL994403: Large stone found and cut up for supports for a footbridge. Both allegedly part of the 'Puddingstone Track'.⁵⁹

TL995453: Large ferruginous conglomerate in grassy bank outside farm at Drakestone Green.¹¹ Said to be part of the 'Puddingstone Track'. I photographed it back in 1975, but when I visited the site again in May 2016, I was unable to find the stone. However, the farm owner tells me that it's still there, just hidden under a hedge. Another is said to exist further along the road, at Roper's Green.

TM002467: Said to be another conglomerate by roadside near bridge over river Brett.³¹ The area is now so overgrown, and the roadside changed so much in the last 60 years, that there's little hope of ever finding this stone.

TL994461: The village website says there are two pieces of millstone on the verge here on Watson's Hill, but possibly not from the windmill which may once have stood nearby. Actually there are three stones, which I'm pretty sure are in fact sandstone glacial erratics.

TM122449: Along the south wall of the Wild Man pub are four erratics, one quite large, painted black. This is at the junction of Burstall Lane and the High Street, and can be seen HERE on Street View.

A stone nearly a metre long and with a "bowelly surface" (mammilated) was once said to be at Frost Farm, but I haven't been able to determine where this was.⁶⁸

TL996367: A large glacial boulder about 2.4m x 1m is embedded in a small grassy triangle near the entrance to Scotland Place, visible on Street View HERE.⁹⁴

TM36487451: Newly unearthed in 2020 is another boulder of the same stratum, now placed as a focal point on the village green. It's a stratified sandstone conglomerate 1.2m x 1.13m x 0.35m high, dug up from land belonging to Hillhouse Farm, a little to the south.¹⁰⁴

Shaped stone at Hall Farm used as gatepost, possibly originally from nearby field.³⁶

TM371793: Sandstone conglomerate erratic noted at Bond's Farm (close to Thyme Cottage).⁴⁵

TL486562: Sarsen stone about 1 metre across in car park of Robin Hood & Little John pub. 'Footprint' mark embedded into it, some say possibly carved.

Another stone reported on driveway of house close to the same pub.⁵¹

Nigel Pennick and/or Ken Clarke have reported various puddingstones here: TL403586: 2 at gate of Whitwell Farm in Whitwell Way; TL412588: outside cottage in The Footpath; TL413588: almost buried, at junction of Brook Lane & The Footpath; TL416587: on surface in The Footpath. Also, a large flat sarsen slab at TL408588, on edge of churchyard.⁵²

TL480459: Another not-very-large stone can be found on the small grassy triangle opposite the church, where St. Peter's Street and Chapel Street meet, along with several other more recent placements. On Street View HERE.

TL56154671: What is described as a "recumbent megalith" lies just off the west side of Church Lane, beside a path to the river Granta, and just north-north-west of St. Mary's church.⁷⁹ This is actually a large sarsen, with odd 'cup-marks' in its upper surface, and measures 1.35m x 73cm x 30cm high.

While I was looking for this stone, I noticed another erratic, this one plain sandstone, embedded against a wall in Church Lane, at TL56204677. This measures 50 x 35 x 40cm high.

TL850303: Sarsen blocks built into church tower.

Another sarsen, with a mammilated surface, can be seen next to the church porch (pictured left.)

TL507065: Site of conglomerate in brook, later destroyed for fear it would grow.

TL513083: Puddingstone built into church foundations. Another reported in field at TL511083.

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2. Norfolk Record Office, Gt. Yarmouth Borough Archives 1208-2002.

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5. Information from the late Ben Ripper of Swaffham.

6. 'Pudding-stones' in the 'East Anglian Magazine' (1952), p.242.

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8. 'Report on the Excavations at Grime's Graves' in 'Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia' (1915), p.34.

9. E.A. Rudge: 'The Lost Trackway: from Grime's Graves to Stonehenge' (ed. John Cooper), 1994, p.22.

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13. Barry Cross photos - Alderton

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23. Barry Cross photos - Hintlesham

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33. Barry Cross photos - Stoke by Nayland

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35. Barry Cross photos - Trimley

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37. Letter in the 'Eastern Daily Press', July 11th 1974.

38. Information from Joan Snelling of Ludham.

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53. http://www.standrewshiston.org/moses

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58. E.A. Rudge: 'The Lost Trackway: from Grime's Graves to Stonehenge' (ed. John Cooper), 1994, p.11.

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63. Clement Reid: 'The Geology of the Country around Cromer' (Geological Survey, 1882), p.110.

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66. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3079191

67. 'Report of the 73rd Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science', (John Murray, 1904), p.236.

68. Prof. T. Rupert Jones: 'History of the Sarsens' in 'Geological Magazine' (Decade IV), Vol.8, Issue 2 (Feb.1901), p.57.

69. Shirley Toulson: ‘East Anglia: walking the ley lines & ancient tracks’ (Wildwood House Ltd, 1979), p.42.

70. Shirley Toulson: ‘East Anglia: walking the ley lines & ancient tracks’ (Wildwood House Ltd, 1979), p.50.

71. Shirley Toulson: ‘East Anglia: walking the ley lines & ancient tracks’ (Wildwood House Ltd, 1979), p.96.

72. Cambs Photograph Collection, Ref.X119/60, Cambridgeshire Archives.

73. Clive Paine (ed): 'Hartest: A Village History' (Hartest Local History Group, 1984), p.137.

74. Alan Crosby: 'A History of Thetford' (Phillimore, 1986), plate 27.

75. Letter, Dr. E. Rudge to Mrs E. Pilcher, 28/9/50.

76. E.A. Rudge: 'The Lost Trackway: from Grime's Graves to Stonehenge' (ed. John Cooper), 1994, p.22.

77. E.A. Rudge 'Further Observations on the Conglomerate Track' in 'Essex Naturalist' Vol.29, 1952-6, p.257.

78. A.E. Salter: 'Pebbly Gravel from Goring Gap to the Norfolk Coast', in 'Proceedings of the Geologists Association' Vol.14, Issue 9 (1896), p.399.

79. http://ancientwandlebury.blogspot.co.uk/

80. former webpage: www.sevenwondersofipswich.co.uk/wonders/show.php?num=6

81. Information from Carl Jordan.

82. Information from Phil Cox.

83. Russell Ling & Lester Hawes: 'Otley Past: Folklore & Local History' (private, 2012), p.95.

84. H. K. Creed: 'The Stones in Mutford Wood' in 'Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology' Vol. IV, Part 5 (1872), p.244-6.

85. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=36011 

86. https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk - Hill-of-Health

87. George Maw: 'The Occurrence of Consolidated Blocks in the Drift of Suffolk', in 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society', Vol.23, Part 1 (1867), p.111.

88. http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2009/05/05/stoke_hall_vaults_ziggy_feature.shtml

89. Information from Claire Pruden, & https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk - Goymors Farm

90. former webpage: https://www.flickr.com/photos/28466597@N04/15475027927/#DiscussPhoto

91. http://hinghamhistorycentre.co.uk/the-american-connection/

92. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4469707

93. F. R. Cowper Reed: 'Note on a Large Boulder at Wimpole Hall, Cambs', in 'Geological Magazine (Decade IV)' (Issue 6, Vol. 5, June 1898), p.267.

94. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk-Stoke.pdf

95. Robert Halliday: 'Suffolk Strange But True' (History Press, 2008), p.31.

96. John Timpson: 'Timpson's Leylines' (Cassell & Co, 2000), pp. 7, 14.

97. David Osborne: 'A View of Thetford Past' (D. Osborne, 1984), no page numbers, under letter L for London Road.

98. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10813#56962

99. David Osborne: 'Thetford: A Century Remembered' (D. Osborne, 1996), p.91.

100. Editor's note to: William Fowler:  'A Relic of the Glacial Sands', in 'Transactions of the Suffolk Natural History Society' (1932-4) Vol.2, p.12.

101. Roger Loose: 'The Mystery of the Boxford Stones Unravelled' in 'Box River News' Vol.12, No.4 (April 2012.)

102. H. Munro Cautley: 'Suffolk Churches and their Treasures' (Batsford, 1938).

103. Hadleigh Town Council Meeting Report, in 'Hadleigh Community News' (April 2019), p.38.

104. Information gratefully received from Chris Northover.

105. Information gratefully received from Peter Armitage.

106. https://www.ebsoc.org.uk/local-story/glacial-erratic-boulder/