The most logical explanation of these boulders is that they are "lag" features derived from pre-Ipswichian glacial deposits -- isolated following the removal of finer matrix materials. Following the Ipswichian interglacial, they were covered by, and incorporated into Early and Mid Devensian slope breccias (sometimes cemented) and sandrock, and then later overridden by the Irish Sea ice which laid down the Irish Sea till and its related ice wastage products. While these sediments accumulated, the position of the coastline was far away, to the west.
The "free" erratic boulders on the rock platforms around the Bristol Channel coasts could be of many different ages, but I see no evidence which might lead to them being attributed to low sea-level stillstands during MIS 3 or MIS 4.
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