An Important Ancient Stone of London but no one knows why?

Sitting right in the heart of London does anyone can remember the theories regarding London’s Stone range from the Roman ruin, to the Druidic icon and talisman of good fortune. Although In the year 1598 John Stow’s discuss the stone through Survey of London, where he sets that it was very first mentioned in the 10th century in some important print. What he basically claims is “he found a mention of this mysterious stone in a document of the time 900s AD”. At that time, no one took an interest in its background, and they felt more comfortable in citing a list of the Canterbury Cathedral’s properties just to claim that stone through the list because what they want to prove is the stone their property and mentioned in a list as the Eadwaker æt lundene stane.

Regardless, by the medieval times, the London Stone was an important fixture in the city, now the stone has quite a deep impact on residents, and even they start incorporated it into their names, like Ailwin of the London Stone. Clearly important, at the start of 15th century the landmark was seen as the symbol for capital, and perhaps of the England too; this helps explain to us why, when the Jack Cade led a rebellion army against Henry VI in the year 1450, he reportedly struck this London Stone through his sword to claim the city for himself. This part of the history is immortalized by the Shakespeare in Part II of the King Henry VI, Act IV, Scene VI.

In late 16th century, one famous theory about the stone’s is still circulating. And it was that it had been used by Roman’s during their occupation (approximately from 43 AD to the 410 AD) as a millarium or the central milestone of the city. They measures all distance of the city right from the stone’s location. Charles Dickens also mentioned this explanation in Dictionary of London (1879).

During 18th century, some start speculating that this mysterious stone was used in the worship by the Druids, although we don’t have any evidence to support it.

In the 19th century when the interest in spiritualism starts spreading all over the world some theorized that London Stone was a kind of Palladium or a talisman dating back to the Roman times and Britain’s legendary founder. Right at the same time the now well known saying appeared: “So as long as the Stone of Brutus is safe, so long shall London flourish.”

By the mid of 20th century, serious archeologists start digging into the London Stone’s origins. This was the most serious efforts of reliving secrets about the stone but you simply don’t need such efforts for cheap hotels in bayswater”. They found that it is situated in the center, or at the gate, of a large Roman structure, sometimes also known as the Governor’s Palace or the pretorium.

Important is what today’s generation think about it who is technically more open and need luxurious accommodation like park grand London Hyde park. So those who believe in the straight “lines” that connect the sites of historical or any geographical significance, claim London Stone is transected by a number of these lines, while some others have posited that stone was set in the center of the old Roman city, in homage to Jupiter.

Bonus Facts:

• Since around 10,000 years ago, people have the inhabited area around the Salisbury, England known as the Stonehenge. Dating back to about 7,500 BC, flint tools, and the fragments have been found, and some other archeological evidence points out towards relatively continuous habitation since then.
• From about the era of 3,500 BC, people in the region were start building monuments, beginning with the earthworks, one of which was near about two miles long, with rock bottom at its east and west ends. After, about 3,000 BC, the builders of that time drilled postholes, although it is not clear if first holes were used for the timber posts or bluestones. Regardless, by the 2,600 BC, two circles of the bluestones were raised at the site.
• By the time of 2,400 BC, a horseshoe shaped monument of sarsen stones was erected right in the center of a ring, It is similar to the stone lintels that connected them. Within a next century, a ring of the bluestone rings was raised inside the horseshoe and one another in between it and outer ring of sarsen stones.
• Heel Stone of Stonehenge aligns with pits of the older, lengthy earthen monument. These pits, are aligned with sunset and the sunrise of the Summer Solstice.
• Remarkably, the bluestones that weigh around the four tons were originally from the Wales and were transported more than 140 miles to Salisbury. Some think this stone were moved by the ancient peoples using rafts, and others theories say ice age glaciers moved them.
• The sacren stones are even larger and weighing more than 25 tons (and standing more than that of the 30 feet) and were somehow transported from the Marlborough Downs, 20 miles towards the north.
• Henge has also been defined as the ditch inside an earthen bank with minimum one entrance through the bank. Ironically, since the Stonehenge has its bank inside the glitchy ditch, it may not technically term as a henge, but a stone circle.
• Britain is dotted with the stone circles and the henges, with the former numbering of about 1,000, and the latter 120, which, if all our calculations are correct. It has one ancient monument at the distance of 80 square miles.
• Cecil Chubb was the last person to own the Stonehenge; he purchased it in the year 1915 on a whim for more than $800,000 as per today’s tally. According to BBC, he presents it to his wife as a gift, which she didn’t appreciate. So after three years later from then, he donated it to England.