Mike Burgess has completed his nine-year project examining Dr. Ernest Rudge's doubtful Puddingstone Track theory. The write-up is now available on his web site Hidden East Anglia. Mike has photographed and measured every stone he could access from Norfolk to Oxfordshire and finds that sadly the idea doesn't hold water. But as we like cataloguing and 'collecting' stones in the landscape we're glad he did it.. This article was originally published in 2005: Is there a lost Neolithic trade route that took high quality flint from the mines at Grimes Graves to Stonehenge? Dr Ernest Rudge certainly thought so and spent many years researching what he called a "Lost Highway". Rudge located many puddingstone boulders that he thought acted as marker stones along the way. After his death in 1984, his work was summarised by John Cooper of the Department of Palaeontology at London's Natural History Museum. His summary gives a detailed itinerary, much of which I have now plotted on the Megalithic Map. I have John's permission to use information from his publication and he is delighted that further research will continue.
Published on December 07, 2020 12:35
