The King's Men (Rollright Stones)

Local nameThe King's Men (Rollright Stones)
LocationSouth East England, UK

The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. Constructed from local oolitic limestone, the three monuments now known as the King's Men and the Whispering Knights in Oxfordshire and the King Stone in Warwickshire, are distinct in their design and purpose, and were built at different periods in late prehistory. The stretch of time during which the three monuments were erected bears witness to a continuous tradition of ritual behaviour on sacred ground, from the 4th to the 2nd millennium BCE.The first to be constructed was the Whispering Knights, a dolmen that dates to the Early or Middle Neolithic period and which was likely to have been used as a place of burial.

Tags Stone CircleNeolithicBronze AgeMegalithEnglish HeritageTombArchaeological Site
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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones

Official Website http://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/index.php/stones/detail/the-kings-men/

Email info@rollrightstones.co.uk

Address (Unnamed Road), OX7 5QB, United Kingdom

Coordinates 51°58'31.992" N -1°34'14.878" E

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