"God, I love stone cists!"
Don't ya just love it when a woman talks like that? ;o)
It seems a funny thing for a pagan cist to be buried in a xtian cemetary. I suppose the fact that the monolith is still there at all is pretty wierd.
I'm intrigued by the name Rudston = Rood Stone = Cross Stone. That does suggest that the monolith may have been xtianised. If it did have a cross on top, as is suggested by several references on the web, why isn't it still there? After all the church would surely have maintained the xtain nature of the site over the years. Even if the cross fell off, would't they have replaced it?
