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The Rudston Monolith

Rudston, East Yorkshire

The tallest standing stone in Britain, in a village churchyard.

The Rudston Monolith is over 7. 6 metres tall and weighs around 40 tonnes.

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When
Late Neolithic
Where
54.0940, -0.3220
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

All Saints churchyard, free.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

In the churchyard of All Saints, in the village of Rudston in the East Riding of Yorkshire, stands the tallest standing stone in the United Kingdom.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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