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Were Early Medieval (current terminology for Dark Ages?) meeting/boundary stones often referred to as 'Blew Stones'? It's a question that has vaguely nagged me for some time now.

The only other references I've found using that spelling on the web, are in relation to a book on Quakers being expelled from Newcastle, and John Leland's account of Cadbury Castle:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/42025

Were the bluestones at Stonehenge ever spelled with the 'ew'? Is it just an old way to write 'Blue' or is it nowt to do with colour and means something else in Old English?

I don't know, but I'm thinking that in some parts of Saxon England it was customary to blow a horn at certain times and places to announce changes - sort of early town crier thing. I can't find a reference, but I seem to recall something about horns being blown at boundary stones in Yorkshire. Spelling was incredibly dodgy right up to modern times and in the early medieval period, blue could well have been spelled "blew". Then again - the Blew Stone may well have been one or the boundary stones where you blew your horn.