We discovered, on our way home from seeing the Whispering Knights the night before another entrance to the Rollright Stones and upon returning home and and finding more information on the web about the Rollright Stones, that we had only seen 1 of 3 of the "Stones" sites (spread about 400 to 500 yards apart from each other) and so we returned the following day with Rachel and Tyler.
Excerpts follow from the website: http://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/index.php/stones/detail/the-kings-men/
King's Stone: (top photo)
"Its purpose and age are unclear, although it is believed to be of middle Bronze Age origin. Some sources suggest that it might be an outlier to the Stone Circle.
The strange shape (likened to a seal balancing a ball on its nose) of this standing stone has less to do with the weathering effects of nature than with the destructive habit of 19th century drovers who chipped off small pieces to act as lucky charms and keep the Devil at bay. Thankfully this superstitious vandalism no longer goes on."
King's Men: (remaining photos)
"At present there are 77 stones of heavily weathered local oolitic limestone, which were poetically described by William Stukeley as being “corroded like worm eaten wood, by the harsh Jaws of Time”, which made “a very noble, rustic, sight, and strike an odd terror upon the spectators, and admiration at the design of ‘em”.
Aubrey Burl has, in a more down to earth way, called the Rollrights “seventy-seven stones, stumps and lumps of leprous limestone”."
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