Description:The Boltstone stood in a field east of Bannut Tree Lane near Compton, Kinver. It was also known as the Bolstone, the Bolt, the Battlestone, the Bierstone and the Baston. It was a large standing stone which could have been part of a megalithic chambered tomb, or a battlestone, or a glacial erratic. In the 1680s Dr Robert Plot measured it as being two yards and an inch high (1.85 metres) and nearly four yards around (3.65 metres). It was blown up by the farmer owning the land in 1848, using gunpowder. Standing with it are stooks of corn.
A sepia drawing by Thomas Peploe Wood.