Leper Stone

The Leper Stone or Newport Stone is a large sarsen stone near the village of Newport, Essex [1]. Julian Cope, Peter Herring, UK Geocaching along with D.G. Buckley and Ken Newton's paper for the Council of British Archaeology have suggested that the Leper Stone was set vertically in the ground as a megalithic menhir or standing stone [1]. J.D. Hedges report of 1980 also classified it as a standing stone for English Heritage [1]. Similarly it has been described as a monolith by the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian society [1].