The Rudston Standing Stone

Week 16  The Rudston Megalith (Huge Stone)

Standing 25 feet high (7.6 metres) in Rudston churchyard five miles west of Bridlington is the Rudston standing stone. It dates back to somewhere around 1600 BC in the late neolithic age and is the largest standing stone in the UK, weighing in about 40 tons. Like Stonehenge, the stone is not obtained locally; in this case the nearest type of stone is nearly 10 miles away! The fact that it is in the churchyard suggests that this has been a place of some form of worship for a lot longer than the present Norman church has stood here.