MissingRobot wrote:
Many of the answers can be found here:
you must have missed http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba107/feat2.shtml
Whether it is a puddingstone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddingstone_(rock)
or another type of conglomerate, I could not find with a web research..
I always believed, to be a puddingstone, you needed large, rounded pebbles in a much finer grained matrix with quite a lot of matrix-pebbles. A conglomerate can have very little inbetween the pebbles (although a puddingstone is still a conglomerate!).
It does appear that the stone is local in origin as it is implied there is a natural outcrop just below the surface...
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=54462&message=677456