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grrr G
grrr Jul 1, 2003 07:31:09
Replying to ocifant

according to Christopher Chippendale in 'Stonehenge Complete'...

"Another single sarsen,blackened by smoke, stasnds in Hyde Park just east of the Serpentine, a forgotten relic of a 19th century bridge of sarsens"

I haven't been to the park since reading this, so I can't give any better idea of exactly where to look, but I think it shouldn't be too hard to spot when you know it's there.

P Paulus
Paulus Mar 4, 2005 15:49:35
Replying to grrr

Have those 'druidical circles' on Thorney Island and by St. Pauls, described in E.O. Gordon's "Prehistoric London" (1914) ever been substantiated? He mentions a few other good old heathen places aswell...

S Sifaka
Sifaka Mar 22, 2005 07:41:02
Replying to grrr

Ah, in the last couple of days I read somewhere (will try to locate reference!) of the Ossulston, located at the North East of Hyde Park (this would be around Speaker's Corner/Tyburn, I suppose?). Mind you, the extract IIRC was written some time ago, by an antiquarian-type historian l- Stow/Camden/Leland? (Gaaarn I can't remember and it was only 2 days ago! argh) Anyway, it said that the area of Middlesex known in the early medieval period as the Ossulston Hundred was named after this ancient stone. Perhaps a meeting place like Kingston.