Andle Stone


The Andle Stone is a large gritstone boulder on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire. The stone block is 6m long, 4m high and lies within a low, circular, dry stone wall enclosure. It is covered in cup and ring marks. 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 Arthur [Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington], Lieutenant Colonel William Thornhill and the battles of Assaye and Waterloo. The inscription reads:
The Andle Stone and the nearby Doll Tor stone circle are both on private farmland with no public access rights.