The Whispering Knights (Puffin Story Books)

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If the refresh of the labyrinth works as hoped, we have considered the idea of running some workshops since quite a number of people have asked about this over the last few years; however, there is much to do before deciding about that. Now that we are into November, it is time for work on the labyrinth to begin with sections of fallen trees used to mark the paths. The Rollright Stones are privately owned and managed. They consist of The Whispering Knights burial chamber, the King's Men stone circle and the King Stone (which is across the road from the other two parts of the monument). I was a little disappointed by this one. I liked The House in Norham Gardens quite well, I loved The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, and I was sure I would be over the moon about this one.

Ravenhill, T H, 'Report' in The Rollright Stones, Some Facts And Some Problems, , Vol. 1926, (1926), 121-43

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Ordnance Survey maps: Landranger 151 (Straford-upon-Avon 1:50,000); Explorer 191 (Banbury, Bicester and Chipping Norton 1:25,000) Burl, A. 1995. A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. London: Yale University Press. a great monument of Antiquity ; a number of vastly large Stones plac’d in a circular figure, which the Country-people call Rolle-rich-stones, and have a fond tradition, that they were once Men, and were turn’d into Stones. The figure of them, as rudely drawn a long time ago, I shall here represent to the Reader’s eye. They are irregular and of unequal height, and by the decays of time are grown ragged and very much impair’d. The highest of them, which lies out of the ring toward the east, they call The King ; because they fancy he should have been King of England, if he could have seen Long-Compton, a Village which is within view at a very few steps farther ; five larger Stones, which on one side of the circle are contiguous to one another, they pretend were Knights or Horsemen, and the other common Soldiers. '

The Whispering Knights project -Neolithic Echoes, is an ephemeral,ever-changing environmental and aesthetic project near the Whispering Knights Dolmen & Rollright Stone Circle in Oxfordshire. Rendall, V, 'Sat. Review' in A Glimpse of Neolithic England, the Rollright Stones, , Vol. vol 142, (1926), 307-8 The 'Anitquary' mentioned in the addition was Ralf Sheldon who Plot informs us ' industriously dug in the middle of it' looking for ' any symbols or marks, either who might erect it, or for what end or purpose' but apparently without result, sometime in the mid 17th century. (Plot. 1677, p338).Morgan kidnapped Martha, and then went for a horse ride. Why would she do that? It made it real convenient to just get into the house& grab Martha. The Rollright Stones are not spectacular, in the manner of Stonehenge, or Avebury, but that also means they are not thronged with tourists, as those better-known circles can be. It seemed many times that the author avoided things just to make it convenient. Like skipping talking of Morgan. how old she is, why she's after children, what her goal is, anything really. Why can't she be killed? What happened between her& Hepplewhite? You must never play the game according to her rules. The one weapon we have against her, apart from disbelief, is reason. And she knows very little about science.