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outcrop at Radlett and Cuffley. A very similar type may be
found in the bed of the Cripsey Brook, near Moreton in Essex.
Conglomerate passes under many local names. In Hertford-
shire it is known as "mother-stone," and in Essex as "growing-
stone" or "breeding-stone." A Suffolk variety is called
"drakestone."
Salter had noted the position of a small number of conglo-
merate blocks, and we began by checking them. The first and
nearest was at Holyfield (387030),1 a mile and a half north of
Waltham Abbey. We found it a conical-shaped stone standing
vertically about thirty inches above ground (Plate 11). It did not
have the appearance expected of an erratic block. Local en-
quiries elicited amply corroborated evidence of the existence of
two stones, similar both in size and shape, one on Galley Hill
(400038) and another in Deerpark Wood (405040). These three
sites lay on an almost straight line, which, produced to the west,
crossed a fourth puddingstone reputed buried in the boulder clay
FIG. 1. THE HOLYFIELD TRACK
X. Concealed Stone. Z. Galley Hill Stone.
Y. Monkhams Stone. D. Deerpark Wood.
H. Holyfield Stone.
on the slope of a hillock overlooking the Lea valley. The signi-
ficance of these four stones of the same material each on a slight
rise of ground, visible from each other but for intervening vegeta-
tion, and roughly in a straight line only a mile and a half long,
was carefully weighed, bearing in mind that only one of the four
had in point of fact been discovered and confirmed by us. We
were satisfied that the carefully sifted evidence before us did in
fact relate to an actual series of standing stones which temporarily
could not be located in the dense summer undergrowth of the
sites. We accepted the evidence and proceeded with our enquiry.
1 Numbers in parentheses refer to National Grid References, Square 52, one-
inch Ordnance Map.