Oxford geologist named Megalosaurus in 1824, based on fossils found in nearby Stonesfield. Richard Owen only coined the term 'dinosaur' years later, in 1841. The original Megalosaurus fossils are currently on display in the OUMNH. www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-oxford...
The Oxfordshire Dinosaurs
Oxfordshire is home to the discovery of the first dinosaur to be scientifically described: Megalosaurus bucklandii. On display with Megalosaurus are three other species of dinosaur discovered in Oxfor...
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August 28, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Oxford geologist named Megalosaurus in 1824, based on fossils found in nearby Stonesfield. Richard Owen only coined the term 'dinosaur' years later, in 1841. The original Megalosaurus fossils are currently on display in the OUMNH. www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-oxford...
Progress and future directions in dinosaur palaeontology | Nature Reviews Biodiversity
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->Nature | More on "Dinosaur paleontology and evolution" at BigEarthData.ai | #biodiversity #nature
Progress and future directions in dinosaur palaeontology | Nature Reviews Biodiversity
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August 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Playing jazz stylings at The White Horse Stonesfield shortly.
May 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Playing jazz stylings at The White Horse Stonesfield shortly.
"CNL60 - A Roman Route"
Guided walk with CNL Voluntary Wardens on Thursday 4th June 2026 at 10am
A pretty walk in the Evenlode valley from Stonesfield along the Akeman Street, a Roman road, back via the Roman Villa at North Leigh
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/exploring/gu...
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Guided walk with CNL Voluntary Wardens on Thursday 4th June 2026 at 10am
A pretty walk in the Evenlode valley from Stonesfield along the Akeman Street, a Roman road, back via the Roman Villa at North Leigh
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/exploring/gu...
📷Anne Askwith
May 24, 2026 at 10:52 AM
"CNL60 - A Roman Route"
Guided walk with CNL Voluntary Wardens on Thursday 4th June 2026 at 10am
A pretty walk in the Evenlode valley from Stonesfield along the Akeman Street, a Roman road, back via the Roman Villa at North Leigh
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/exploring/gu...
📷Anne Askwith
Guided walk with CNL Voluntary Wardens on Thursday 4th June 2026 at 10am
A pretty walk in the Evenlode valley from Stonesfield along the Akeman Street, a Roman road, back via the Roman Villa at North Leigh
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/exploring/gu...
📷Anne Askwith
Our poster girl, Shiruru, is striking a pose for the camera, but she has no idea that the “MobileMRI” app is actually letting people peek at her internal organs—specifically, her female reproductive organs.
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May 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Our poster girl, Shiruru, is striking a pose for the camera, but she has no idea that the “MobileMRI” app is actually letting people peek at her internal organs—specifically, her female reproductive organs.
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Playing drumkit with jazzers at White Horse, Stonesfield, this holiday Monday 4-6pm www.thewhitehorsestonesfield.com
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May 2, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Playing drumkit with jazzers at White Horse, Stonesfield, this holiday Monday 4-6pm www.thewhitehorsestonesfield.com
Megalosaurus is Sex Pistols. Foundational, rudimentary, messy, scariest thing imaginable to an earlier generation. I'm far from done but have to go to class! Stay tuned...
April 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Megalosaurus is Sex Pistols. Foundational, rudimentary, messy, scariest thing imaginable to an earlier generation. I'm far from done but have to go to class! Stay tuned...
Pub 3361, White Horse, Stonesfield. Loved the angular low bare boarded beginnings, village was cute, locals said arrr, but the Harry Potter beer range declined quickly and it was more huff than puff late on.
April 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Pub 3361, White Horse, Stonesfield. Loved the angular low bare boarded beginnings, village was cute, locals said arrr, but the Harry Potter beer range declined quickly and it was more huff than puff late on.
"CNL60 - Folklore"
Guided walk with CNL Wardens on Thursday 9th April 2026 starting at 10am
Walking through open farmland and woodland through Fawler, around Wilcote and back to Stonesfield.
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/.../guide......
#cotswoldsnationallandscape #guidedwalk
📷 Anne Askwith
Guided walk with CNL Wardens on Thursday 9th April 2026 starting at 10am
Walking through open farmland and woodland through Fawler, around Wilcote and back to Stonesfield.
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/.../guide......
#cotswoldsnationallandscape #guidedwalk
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March 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"CNL60 - Folklore"
Guided walk with CNL Wardens on Thursday 9th April 2026 starting at 10am
Walking through open farmland and woodland through Fawler, around Wilcote and back to Stonesfield.
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/.../guide......
#cotswoldsnationallandscape #guidedwalk
📷 Anne Askwith
Guided walk with CNL Wardens on Thursday 9th April 2026 starting at 10am
Walking through open farmland and woodland through Fawler, around Wilcote and back to Stonesfield.
Full details: www.cotswolds-nl.org.uk/.../guide......
#cotswoldsnationallandscape #guidedwalk
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I've seen it in person—in the lot at Stonesfield. Very strange.
March 27, 2026 at 6:06 AM
I've seen it in person—in the lot at Stonesfield. Very strange.
Thursday – STONESFIELD
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Stonesfield slate is everywhere across Oxfordshire. Several Oxford University colleges are roofed with it and so too are many Cotswold farmhouses. Stonesfielders were chiefly employed in slate quarries.
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Stonesfield slate is everywhere across Oxfordshire. Several Oxford University colleges are roofed with it and so too are many Cotswold farmhouses. Stonesfielders were chiefly employed in slate quarries.
STONESFIELD: West Oxfordshire Parish #4 of 83
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March 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Thursday – STONESFIELD
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Stonesfield slate is everywhere across Oxfordshire. Several Oxford University colleges are roofed with it and so too are many Cotswold farmhouses. Stonesfielders were chiefly employed in slate quarries.
youtu.be/jxZNE7lo-M0
Stonesfield slate is everywhere across Oxfordshire. Several Oxford University colleges are roofed with it and so too are many Cotswold farmhouses. Stonesfielders were chiefly employed in slate quarries.
Buckland made the announcement during a paper read to the Geological Society of London. The fossils he described had been collected over years from quarries in Oxfordshire, especially near Stonesfield. These remains included part of a jaw, teeth, vertebrae, ribs, and limb bones.
February 21, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Buckland made the announcement during a paper read to the Geological Society of London. The fossils he described had been collected over years from quarries in Oxfordshire, especially near Stonesfield. These remains included part of a jaw, teeth, vertebrae, ribs, and limb bones.
1824: First description of a dinosaur published: ‘Megalosaurus or Great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield’ to the Geological Society of London by William Buckland, beginning dinosaur mania
February 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM
1824: First description of a dinosaur published: ‘Megalosaurus or Great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield’ to the Geological Society of London by William Buckland, beginning dinosaur mania
When the master looked into Shiruru's lower body with the transparent app "MobileMRI," he saw that her internal organs were clogged with poop 💩, and the moment he realized that she was constipated, he got an erection.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:29 AM
When the master looked into Shiruru's lower body with the transparent app "MobileMRI," he saw that her internal organs were clogged with poop 💩, and the moment he realized that she was constipated, he got an erection.
[Silulu Stonesfield.]
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[Silulu Stonesfield.]
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* “average resurfacing cycle for all types of roads in England is every 103 years” factoid actualy just statistical error. average resurfacing cycle is every 12 years. Stonesfield megalosaurus pothole, which was caused by a 700kg dinosaur 166mn yrs ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
January 20, 2026 at 12:09 PM
* “average resurfacing cycle for all types of roads in England is every 103 years” factoid actualy just statistical error. average resurfacing cycle is every 12 years. Stonesfield megalosaurus pothole, which was caused by a 700kg dinosaur 166mn yrs ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Stonesfield Little Bob Cinques 🔔
December 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Stonesfield Little Bob Cinques 🔔
More Stonesfield pterosaur stuff to come 👀
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
More Stonesfield pterosaur stuff to come 👀
Just published today - a quick nomenclatural note on an obscure non-pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Stonesfield Slate! Thomas Huxley named it in 1859, not Hermann von Meyer
Rhamphorhynchus bucklandi Huxley, 1859 is the valid name and authority for a Jurassic pterosaur (Pterosauria, RHAMPHORHYNCHIDAE) from England, not Pterodactylus bucklandi Meyer, 1832
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December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just published today - a quick nomenclatural note on an obscure non-pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Stonesfield Slate! Thomas Huxley named it in 1859, not Hermann von Meyer
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Going back to Stonesfield
On the shortest day of the year the sun decided that it was going to come out and the rain stopped for a while. Well, we don’t get that many good days this time of year so I decided to skip t…
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December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Have my brother the Oxfordshire Ghosts book for Christmas one year. Sadly, it took him twice as long to get to his girlfriend’s house thereafter as he wouldn’t drive down a “haunted” road between Combe and Stonesfield.
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Have my brother the Oxfordshire Ghosts book for Christmas one year. Sadly, it took him twice as long to get to his girlfriend’s house thereafter as he wouldn’t drive down a “haunted” road between Combe and Stonesfield.
This megalosaurus-like bone was dug up at Cornwell, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Chipping Norton in north Oxfordshire, from the Great Oolite limestone( Middle Jurassic), of similar age to the Stonesfield Slate Quarry where the specimens that William Buckland famously described in 1824 were found.
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This megalosaurus-like bone was dug up at Cornwell, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Chipping Norton in north Oxfordshire, from the Great Oolite limestone( Middle Jurassic), of similar age to the Stonesfield Slate Quarry where the specimens that William Buckland famously described in 1824 were found.
#FossilFriday: Amongst the 'Ichthyodontes Cuspidati' illustrated by Edward Lhuyd in his 1699 book on British fossils, Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, no. 1328 stands out. It's a tooth of Megalosaurus from the type locality of Stonesfield in Oxfordshire.
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
#FossilFriday: Amongst the 'Ichthyodontes Cuspidati' illustrated by Edward Lhuyd in his 1699 book on British fossils, Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, no. 1328 stands out. It's a tooth of Megalosaurus from the type locality of Stonesfield in Oxfordshire.
Drama group has links with famous actor Rupert Friend
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Drama group has links with famous actor Rupert Friend
WHEN it comes to being versatile, it would be difficult to beat what the Stonesfield Players have achieved. The group has links with Rupert Friend
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November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Drama group has links with famous actor Rupert Friend
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