This strange artefact sits in a cabinet in a darkened corner of Horsingdon’s Museum. Excavated at the site of the Neolithic settlement atop Horsingdon Hill, this luminous mass of smooth white stone is generally believed by geologists to be a natural - albeit highly unusual - geological formation.
Less credible claims hold that it is a product of human artifice at least 7000 years old - perhaps an attempt by one of Horsingdon Hill’s ancient inhabitants to carve into stone the likeness of something which the folk of that place once worshipped in antique and nameless rites…
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