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Re: The Essex mini Megameet
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ocifant wrote:
Don't forget the Puddingstone Trail, which runs from the NorthEast across to West of Ingatestone.

Several stones to hunt out there (and a bit closer than Alphamstone, which is admittedly more spectacular than the puddingstones) - details of the Puddingstone Trail can be found on the Meg Portal.


Thorgrim gives a lovely detailed account on MP, we have found a couple of puddingstones at cross lanes but mostly its used in churches ..
Another place of interest is Great Canfield church, with Odin carved on one pillar with his two ravens, and the Great World Serpent on the other pillar. Its weird that a Northern pagan god confronts you in the porch of a christian church, often wondered if our folklore giants don't stem from the Northern giant Ymir....


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Posted by moss
13th July 2010ce
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