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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 10318536, member: 22&quot;]Who needs the Pyramids of Giza or Stonehenge, when you have this on your doorstep.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well 30 miles away.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cool.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I went to Scarborough today and took a detour on the way home.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Rudston Monolith stands at 25 feet (7.6m) it is the tallest megalith (standing stone) in the UK</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s estimated to weigh 40 tonnes and believed to be as deep underground as it is above ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bigger and heavier than any stone at Stonehenge.</p><p><br /></p><p>The monolith is made of grit stone, the nearest source is Cayton Bay, 10 miles away on the coast.</p><p>It was either hauled to this site 6400 years ago 4400BC or it was moved naturally by glacial ice from the ice age.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was erected well before the Great Pyramids and Stonehenge</p><p><br /></p><p>A possible fossilised dinosaur footprint is on one side.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Norman church was almost certainly intentionally built on a site already considered sacred, implying that a stone already venerated was adapted for Christian purposes.</p><p>It is believed the Christians fixed a cross on the top and then broke it.</p><p>The church was built 1100AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was estimated to be 28 feet high, the breakage was topped with lead in the 1700s to protect the stone from weathering.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes you wonder how many people it took to put this stone upright.</p><p><br /></p><p>I must point out, I took Buzz in the churchyard with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>He almost immediately became stressed and did not want to be there at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as we left the churchyard, he was as happy as Larry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the Pagan spirits were spooking him.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518578[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518579[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518580[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518582[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518583[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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