NHER 10568 (Monument record) - The 'Stone Circle', Gorleston on Sea

(S1) refers to 'the destruction of so called Druidical remains' and quotes (S2).

This reference describes a stone circle standing in Stone Close, and three menhirs ten feet high in the next field (reference checked). The 1920 Ordnance Survey map marks Stone Close around the railway station. On NCM record map R. R. Clarke (NCM) and O. G. S. Crawford note 'See letter from [1] 22 July 1925. Stones formerly on site of railway station or nearby (O.G.S.C.). The evidence is very flimsy and there is suspicion of forgery (R.R.C.)'.
This letter could not be traced in NCM Archaeology Department or in the office files in 1984. It is therefore not at all clear what is meant by 'suspicion of forgery'.
As the stones were in place before 1800, see (S2), and there is no large house anywhere near in which they could have formed a garden ornament, an antiquarian folly seems very improbable.
E. Rose (NAU), 26 June 1987.

(S3) states that the site was destroyed in 1768 when the stones were dug around and pulled over.
E. Rose (NAU), 12 November 1992.

(S4) (copy in file) states that the 1842 tithe award map shows four fields whose name included 'Stone' covering the area corresponding to the present Nile Road to Cliff Hill and an 'equivalent distance' south of Springfield Road and west of Lowestoft Road. This is a much larger area than marked on the NHER map by R. R. Clarke. However the reference also states that a 'later 18th century map' shows only boundary stones. The remainder of (S4) is nonsense.
The site of the railway station was used for a new road roundabout in 1994.
E. Rose (NLA), 15 March 1995.

For a natural formation in Suffolk (Mutford Wood), see (S5).
D. Gurney (NLA) 11 October 1996.

[2] suggests that this may all derive from a ficticious history of Gorleston now in the British Library complied in about 1830 by Randall (exact title unknown), so it is possible the other sources may have been quoting him. The field names Stone Close etc could have other origins, and this has inspired Randall.
E. Rose (NLA), 5 September 2003.