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Standing Stone / Menhir
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Said in local folklore to have been a thunderbolt cast down from the skies by Thor, God of storms, (Corbett, 1962), and first recorded in the late thirteenth century in the survey of the Chadlington hundred. It is possible that the name Thor Stone is from the name of a nearby village of Taston, recorded as Thorstan in 1278 CE. Close by is a stone cross, placed there by early Christians to abate the evil influences from the Thor Stone
Between these two old monuments was once an elm tree which was a meeting place of the villagers in times gone by (Pumphrey,1990)
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Posted by faerygirl
6th January 2011ce
Edited 6th January 2011ce
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