Rollright Stones

The circle, or "army," about 100 feet in diameter, limestone,

heavily worn

The King

The Knights

With improving weather--actually, the day in Oxford was beautiful--we drove back north toward the Cotswolds, detouring along the so-called Jurassic Way to see another stone circle. The Jurassic Way is another ancient pathway, akin to the Ridgeway further south. The Rollright Stones are quite famous, for the "energy" they are said to generate, the various Druid/witch/New Age festivities they attract, their location on an old thoroughfare, and so on. Actually, in addition to the circle (the "army"), there is an outlying menhir (the "king"), and a fallen dolmen (the "knights"), all several hundred yards apart. Obviously, this was a megalitic center of some sort, but centuries of picking over, plowing, and other rough handling, have obliterated most of it. One can only imagine...