The stone was seen to fall, at about 1 p.m. on March 9, 1923, by a thatcher named Frederick Pratt who was working at the time in a corner os a wheat-field on Ashdon Hall farm, Ashdon, near Saffron Walden, Essex. He heard a strange ‘sissing’ sound, and, supposing an aeroplane was overhead, looked up and a second or two after saw what he thought was a projectile fall about thirty yards from him into the wheat-field a few feet from the farm-road, causing the earth to ‘fly up like water’. Three days later, in company with another worker on Ashdon tIall farm named Curven, he dug up the stone from a depth of about two feet.