Rollrights

An unexpected parcel arrived today. I ordered a new rear rack for Morrigan, and it coming from Germany I had expected a couple of weeks to get through customs. In the end (and it was costed below the threshold) it arrived in only five days. Happiness.

The plain chrome rack replaces the purely cosmetic (but very attractive) black rack and actually does something useful. As such, I was able to fit it and throw the camera bag onto it for a day out riding.

I took Morrigan up to the Rollrights, in Oxfordshire. This is an ancient (4,000 year old) stone circle and outlier burial chamber and standing stone, all of oolitic limestone and heavily weathered. In part of course it's also been used for building materials over the past four thousand years.

The circle was almost certainly a ritual space. The burial chamber (extra) is a thousand years older than the circle, and the standing stone marks another burial area from around 1500BC. 

They are well known in folklore, as the The King's Men (circle), the Whispering Knights (burial chamber) and The King Stone. Legend has it a local witch challenged the king to climb to the top off the hill, which he failed to do and was turned to stone.

I definitely never cross witches. ;-)