The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire
Top image is of The King's Men a 4000 year old stone circle.
Bottom left is The Whispering Knights a 5000 year old burial chamber.
Bottom right is The King Stone.
The Legend :
The Stones take their names from a legend about a king and his army who were marching over the Cotswolds when they met a witch who challenged the king saying, “Seven long strides shalt thou take and if Long Compton thou canst see, King of England thou shalt be”. On his seventh stride a mound rose up obscuring the view, and the witch turned them all to stone: the king became the King Stone; his army the King’s Men; and his knights the Whispering Knights (plotting treachery). The witch became an elder tree, supposedly still in the hedge: if it is cut the spell is broken and the Stones will come back to life.
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