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By Aamir Mannan.         Saturday, 29, June, 2024. 

"It was an object of great antiquity when the Romans arrived and their predecessors the ancient Britons found it on their arrival more than two thousand years before. It was erected by the people of the New Stone Age [...]."

 

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London Stone, he tells us, was "the very oldest object in London streets". "The Mediaeval Kings after their coronations used to strike London Stone with their swords in token of the City’s submission" (followed of course by a reference to Jack Cade).

 

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The American archaeologist George Byron Gordon was more expansive (and fanciful) in the course of his Rambles in Old London, published in 1924. 

 

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In 1937 Arthur Mee, founder of The Children's Newspaper and author of The King's England series of guidebooks, described it as "a fragment of its old self  said by some to have been a stone set up in Stone Age days".

 

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 During his stay in England in the 1850s the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne recorded a visit to London Stone in his journal, noting the indentations on the top "which are said to have been made by Jack Cade’s sword".

 

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During the 19th and 20th centuries London Stone was regularly referred to in popular London histories and guidebooks, and visited by tourists.

 

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 Although not bound into a Gospel Book (it is now bound into a volume of miscellaneous medieval texts with a Canterbury provenance (MS Cotton Faustina B. vi) in the British Library), it could be that it was this, or a similar text, that Stow saw.

 

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Nevertheless, the earliest extant list of Canterbury's London properties, which has been dated to between 1098 and 1108, does refer to a property given to the cathedral by a man named "Eadwaker æt lundene stane" ("Eadwaker at London Stone").

 

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 However, it is impossible to confirm Stow's account, since the document he saw cannot now be identified with certainty. 

 

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 In Stow's account, the list had been bound into the end of a Gospel Book given to the cathedral by "Ethelstane king of the west Saxons", usually identified as Æthelstan, king of England (924–39).

 

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 He refers to an early list of properties in London belonging to Christ Church, Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral), and says that one piece of land was described as lying "neare unto London stone".

 

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Middle Ages. The earliest reference to the Stone is usually said to be that in a medieval document cited by Stow in 1598.

 

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Thus, although it was a local landmark, London Stone, at least that part of it standing above ground, was not particularly large.

 

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Stow does not give the dimensions of this "great stone", but a French visitor to London in 1578 had recorded that the Stone was three feet high (above ground), two feet wide, and one foot thick (90 × 60 × 30 cm).

 

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By Aamir Mannan.             Saturday, 15, June, 2024. 

 It was described by the London historian John Stow in his Survey of London (1598) as "a great stone called London stone", "pitched upright... fixed in the ground verie deep, fastned with bars of iron".

 

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And is shown in this position on the "Copperplate" map of London, dating to the 1550s,[5] and on the derivative "Woodcut" map of the 1560s. 

 

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By Aamir Mannan.            Thursday, 13, June, 2024.

The Stone was originally located on the south side of medieval Candlewick Street (afterward widened to create modern Cannon Street) opposite the west end of St Swithin's Church.

 

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When London Stone was erected and what its original function was are unknown, although there has been much speculation.

 

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By Aamir Mannan.            Tuesday, 11, June, 2024.

18th century to early 20th century. History. London Stone and St Swithin's Church as shown on the "Copperplate" map of c.1553–59.

 

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The Stone is located on the north side of Cannon Street, opposite Cannon Street station, in an aperture in the wall of 111 Cannon Street (EC4N 5AR), within a Portland stone casing.