Monument record MCC8883 - Deremy's Stone - a glacial erratic

Summary

A glacial erratic mistakenly thought to be a Saxon boundary stone

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Grid reference TM 0369 1428 (point)
Map sheet TM01SW
Civil Parish EAST MERSEA, COLCHESTER, ESSEX
Civil Parish WEST MERSEA, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Boundary stone, possibly Saxon. <1> <2> <3>
Photographs of stone and plaque. <4>

This is a glacial erratic. According to <3> Deramy is a made up name or a mis-translation. Any boundary stone would not have existed where this erratic was found. <3>

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  • <1> DESC TEXT: Petchey, MR. unknown. SMR.
  • <2> MENTION: Sawyer, PH. unknown. Anglo-SaxonCharters:an annotated list. ERO 16.
  • <3> Article in serial: Crummy, N. 1982. Mersea Island the 11th century boundaries.
  • <4> Photograph: Adams, S. 2001. Deremy's Stone.

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Nov 3 2015 11:41AM

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