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I always thought the South East was pretty well stone-free, but have seen several sites mentioned over recent years that look very interesting indeed...
Aye, little or nothing in the way of standing stones, so when you stumble on something like the Ingatestones, or big puddingstones embedded in some church walls here, it's pretty exciting.

Going even more off topic, but I bet mini Goff would like the Bartlow Mounds and St Cedd's church (by the sea) at Bradwell. There's one free standing stone to the right of the alter at St Cedd's which always has a few discreet offerings by it (moss writes about it in her blog here http://northstoke.blogspot.com/2009/08/stcedd.html ). On the left of the alter, in a tiny niche, there's a little clay figure of St Cedd holding his church (you'd miss it if you didn't give yourself time to slow down and breath in the atmosphere of the place). Moss writes again that the alter itself is, "... a square rectangular slab of stone on three pillars, and here we come to the Celtic heart of this chapel, for it is these three modern stones that represent Saint Cedd's other communities. The left stone is a gift from Holy Island, Lindisfarne, it was here that Saint Cedd was trained by Saint Aidan. The centre stone is a gift from the Island of Iona, the Celtic mission in Britain started here; it was here that St.Colombus founded a monastery where missionary monks were trained. The right stone is a gift from Lastingham, Cedd left Bradwell to build a monastery at Lastingham in the Yorkshire Moors, and it was here he died of the plague in AD 664." http://northstoke.blogspot.com/2008/10/stpeter-on-wall-chapel.html

One of the things that really gets you about St Cedd's is the age of the place - not just the building itself but the possibility that the site was sacred long before the Romans arrived... and then again after they left.