The Andle Stone is a large

gritstone Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for ...

boulder on

Stanton Moor Stanton Moor is a small upland area in the Derbyshire Peak District of central northern England, lying between Matlock and Bakewell near the villages of Birchover and Stanton-in-Peak. It is known for its megaliths – particularly the Nine ...

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. The stone block is 6m long, 4m high and lies within a low, circular,

dry stone Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. A certain amount of binding is obtained through the use of carefully ...

wall enclosure. It is covered in

cup and ring mark Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France (Brittany), Portugal, and Spain (Galicia (Spain), Galicia) – and in Mediterranean Europe ...

s. It is also known as the Oundle Stone, the Anvil Stone or the Twopenny Loaf. There is a memorial inscription on the west-facing concave face of the boulder, commemorating the

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, Lieutenant Colonel William Thornhill (2nd son of Bache Thornhill of Stanton Hall) and the battles of Assaye and

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. The inscription reads: Memorial Inscription on the Andle Stone on Stanton Moor

The Andle Stone and the nearby Doll Tor stone circle are both on private farmland with no public access rights.

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