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Morfe et al ......

As requested, I've been dutifully looking for the past five years (!!) and have found reference to the Bolt Stone not at Tuck Hill but at Compton near Kinver
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8fZVgum1E8sJ:www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/jabez-allies/the-british-roman-and-saxon-antiquities-and-folklore-of-worcestershire-ala/page-13-the-british-roman-and-saxon-antiquities-and-folklore-of-worcestershire-ala.shtml+%22pigeon+house+estate%22+kinver&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

You can click on "directions" here http://www.bdwestmidlands.co.uk/company-details.asp?bn=T+R+Brown+%26+Son&bid=127708 for the exact location of Pigeon House Farm.

The farm is high on a hill with a view of Kinver Edge as a panorama, so the idea of it having been thrown from there by a giant is much more tempting than the Tuck Hill location.

Note, it WAS sandstone. I wonder if it was actually a sticking up rock rather than a standing stone. I can't recall many individual red sandstone rocks around there. There's a big exposed sandstone knoll at the crossroads at the bottom of the hill from the farm, I can well believe there were others.

I've spoken to the people at Pigeon House Farm, who know nothing of it. However, the farm is now only 50 acres and the Pigeon House Estate was much more extensive. So there's more door knocking and searching to be done.

The good old Rev. Baring-Gould mentions it in this book I think? p10
http://www.archive.org/stream/bladysofstewpone00bariuoft#page/n29
(he seems to think it got blown up.)