The Royal Enfield Classic 350 goes back in time to the Rudston Monolith

On this ride Betsy, The Royal Enfield Classic 350 goes back in time to the Rudston Monolith.

In a small East Yorkshire village you will find The Rudston monolith, at 8 metres high it’s the tallest prehistoric standing stone in Britain.

2 meters wide and a meter thick, this giant block of grey stone is estimated the be a massive 26 tons.
Erected here either in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, it’s thought to have been quarried more than 10 miles away in the Cayton Bay area south of Scarborough.

The top of the stone has been weathered and eroded into a fluted peak similar to the stones of the Devil's Arrows and a lead cap was first added to try to preserve it in the 18th century.

The churchyard of All Saints that it stands in is of course much younger and although the christianisation of the site took place around 1100AD the stone had already stood here for at least 3000 years.

A notable resident of the church yard is Winifred Holtby, the author of South Riding, later made into a TV series.

Ride safe,

Dave

My Bikes:
Royal Enfield Classic 350
Royal Enfield 350 machismo with sidecar
BMW R1150RT
Suzuki GN125
Yamaha 535 Virago


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