Origin of Thor's Boundary Stone on Thursley Common

This article was written by Dr John N Bennett and Andy Moffatt who kindly gave Thursley History Society the right to reproduce it. They acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of Chris Shepheard, Manager of the Rural Life Centre in Tilford for tracking down the historical illustrations, the help of Mark Alex-Sanders of Fugro Robertson Ltd for the identification of the microfossil, and the Ordnance Survey for permission to reproduce the map.

The Boundary Stone in August 2004

The Boundary Stone surrounded by dense vegetation in 2003

The key questions which the authors set out to answer were:

• how big is it?

• what is it made of?

• where did it come from?

• how did it get there?

and these are dealt with in the article below which runs to eight pages and includes nine illustrations as can be seen in the pdf:

Origin of Thors Stone.pdf

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