Monument record MDO7008 - Dead Woman's Stone, Throop Heath, Affpuddle

The 'Dead Woman’s Stone' shown on Ordnance Survey maps cannot be traced at this location, in heathland devastated by tanks. A medieval cross-base now in a garden at Briantspuddle is said to be this stone, removed to the village for safety during World War II.

Dead Woman's Stone shown on OS cannot be traced in heathland now devasted by tanks. <2>

Shown as The Dead Woman on Tithe Map 1839. <3>

Since the 1960s the site has been used as a tank raining area, and latterly as a conifer plantation. There is sign of the stone and it is presumed to be lost or destroyed. Ground photo with archive report. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 82209164) Dead Woman's Stone (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 513 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(65) DEAD WOMAN'S STONE (SY 89 SW; 82209164), shown by O.S., cannot be traced in heathland now devastated by tanks.’

<3> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1: the Isle of Purbeck, the hundreds of Rowbarrow, Hasler, Winfrith, Culliford Tree, Bere Regis, Barrow, Puddletown St George, 290 (Monograph). SWX972.

<4> English Heritage, English Heritage Alternative Action Report, KC, MPPA, Dec-2001 (Scheduling record). SDO18279.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456341 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 24 2023 4:51PM