Correcting the Record on the Ramson Cliff Erratic

The latest Quaternary Geology of Devon report has this to say about the Ramson Cliff erratic on Baggy Point:

"In north Devon, however, in addition to the blocks in the till,an isolated block of epidiorite was found at about 80 m OD on Baggy Point promontory [SS 4356 4070] by Madgett andMadgett (1974) which can only have been emplaced by an icesheet. Whilst this implies ice-sheet transport,..."

Bennett, J.A., Cullingford, R.A., Gibbard, P.L., Hughes, P.D. and Murton, J.B. 2024. The Quaternary Geologyof Devon. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 15, 84-130.

Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus - they are wrong, in error, and it is with understanding, not condemnation that I need to correct them.

Their error is not without consequences as it provides succor to the Glacial Transport Theory of Stonehenge as it desperately seeks a drop of evidence in its fact free desert death.

Even before its recent repositioning on the cliff edge the boulder wasn't in a secure context, the first hearsay reports of it - https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-erratics-at-baggy-point-croyde-and.html - have it as a standing stone. An artefact of human movement. And how and when it arrived in that position is a mystery as there are no records of such a standing stone or boulder in the records. 

To say it, "can only have been emplaced by an icesheet," is naïve and credulous, with the lack of any other such erratics at such a height the prior assumption must be that is is very, very unlikely. 

A crack team of investigators have investigated the historical sources, and it is the sources that tell the real story,  https://www.sarsen.org/2025/07/the-mystery-of-ramson-cliff-boulder.html