Pudding Stones and Geology
Thought to be more than fifty million years old, these two pudding stones were found in the courtyard of the 16th century Bull Hotel in the High Street. It was also thought that they might have been used as mounting blocks. After the Bull closed the stones were moved to the present location.
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Pudding Stones and the Geology of Nettlebed by Dr. Jill Eyers
Rocks and landscape shaping Nettlebed
As you look around Nettlebed today it is difficult to imagine a time when it was anything else but this beautiful green English village with its lush woodland, common and gentle rolling hills.
Surprisingly, it is the effects of very different environments that have shaped Nettlebed today. Much of the underlying solid rock is Chalk and this was deposited between 95 and 65 million years ago – the result of warm seas and a massive global warming. After 65 million years plate movements gradually moved us...