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...
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of Great Rollright and Little Rollright and some of the prehistoric Rollright Stones. The parish is on West Oxfordshire's boundary with Cherwell District...
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the henge monument at Avebury, the Rollright Stones, Castlerigg, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist...
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the Rollright Stones, a megalithic site in Oxfordshire, England. The setting of the story however was Boscawen, in Cornwall, at the Boscawen-Un stone circle...
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folklore involving the origin of the Rollright Stones of Oxfordshire. A king and his men were said to have transformed to stone after failing her test, as reported...
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The Rollright Ritual, a book about the rituals and alleged spiritual interactions which he had experienced at the Rollright Stones, a Neolithic stone circle...
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in Cumbria, England, comprising at least two stone circles, a two-mile avenue of megalithic standing stones, and several adjacent burial mounds. Before...
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parish population as 5,719. It was estimated at 6,254 in 2019. The Rollright Stones, a stone circle 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Chipping Norton, reflect prehistoric...
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Weston-by-Cherington. About one mile south of Long Compton are the Rollright Stones, a neolithic monument. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29...
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Each circle contains smaller clusters of stone, including standing stones surrounded by elongated stones in a radiating orientation, forming a sundial...
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monument is unknown. Nine Stones Close originally measured 13.7 metres in diameter. In the mid-19th century it had seven stones in its ring, although by...
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knights (sometimes said to be Danes). This is also the story of how the Rollright Stones that lie on the border between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire came to...
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stone circles. A long barrow burial chamber has been found under the stones of The Cove. It is thought that this predates the erection of the stones by...
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Mitchell's Fold Nine Ladies Rollright Stones Rudston (Rudston Monolith) Stalldown Barrow Standing Stones of Stenness Stanton Drew Stones of Scotland Swinside...
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Henley-on-Thames River Thames Rollright Stones – megalithic stone circle and Whispering Knights burial chamber, near Little Rollright Rousham House – 17th-century...
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Downs, Cornwall Five Kings, Upper Coquerdale, Northumberland The Rollright Stones King Stone, Long Compton, Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border Callanish, Isle...
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merged with Little Rollright to form "Rollright". The megalithic Rollright Stones are about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Great Rollright, near the Warwickshire...
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shortage of big stones on Exmoor. This scarcity of large stones may explain why Neolithic and Bronze Age communities used small stones, termed miniliths...
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for rituals at the Nine Ladies stone circle in Derbyshire, the Rollright Stones in Warwickshire, and the White Horse Stone in Kent. Swedish Heathens have...
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are of places close to Ox[en]ford including Oakley, Otmoor and the Rollright Stones. At the end of the story, Giles is made Lord of Tame, and Count of...
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The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings. These were...
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The Nine Stones, also known as the Devil's Nine Stones, the Nine Ladies, or Lady Williams and her Dog, is a stone circle located near to the village of...
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shortage of big stones on Exmoor. This scarcity of large stones may explain why Neolithic and Bronze Age communities used small stones, termed miniliths...
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The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I": Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais) are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform...
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the stones represented supernatural entities for the circle's builders. A double concentric circle consisting of sarsen megaliths, the Fir Clump stone circle...
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Stonehenge (redirect from Stone Henge)
standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held...
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later in the locked chest. Standing stones are man-made stone structures made to stand up. Some small standing stones can also be arranged in groups to...
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the Tisbury Stone Circle in situ though a small decorative stone circle at Wardour Castle grotto incorporates three of the standing stones. While the transition...
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Megalith (redirect from Primitive stone monuments)
Carnac Stones in Brittany, France, consist of thousands of stones. Megalithic walls Also called Cyclopean walls Stone circles In most languages stone circles...
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met with several great stones" that were "flat upon the ground". The site was destroyed in the 1880s, for none of the stones remained by 1890. Peasants...
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