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nigelswift wrote:
No big deal to you lot no doubt, but to me, brought up in a megalithic desert of soft red sandstone and river gravel, without the least sniff of anthing prehistoric, MEGA!
I find it mildly interesting Nigel, but again, it's a local thing.

Maybe one day you will join me in the search for the missing Bolt Stone?:

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:kXgAdqGO9FoJ:headheritage.com/headtohead/show.php%3Fshow%3Dmessage%26id%3D98464+standing+stone+tuck+hill+six+ashes&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=3

"I've been researching this stone for last 3 years, never have i found such a dearth ofevidence! But there was a standing stone, now removed (lost) this side of the Severn, located west of bobbington, nr Six Ashes at a reputed druidic grove known as Tuck Hill (now a church). The Bolt Stone was in a field to the SW, opposite a house called the Bolt Hole."

I'd love to have a go Morfe, might even take a spin round there in the next few days. Is it just a question of seeing if there's a big old rock lying around somewhere? Would it be sandstone? You don't get very large sandstone blocks much in that area. More likely an erratic I'd think.

My grandfather had a farm at Bobbington, next to the Common. In the 1920's they ploughed up four large erratic blocks in a square formation with a layer of charcoal within them. Wonder what that was all about.