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Three prehistoric monuments on the ridge where Oxfordshire meets Warwickshire, spanning roughly two thousand years.
The Whispering Knights, the remains of a burial chamber about 500 metres along the field edge, are the oldest, from the early or middle Neolithic. The King’s Men stone circle beside the road dates from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, and the single King Stone across the road is Bronze Age. The legend, recorded by William Camden in 1610, has a would-be king and his army turned to stone by a witch after he failed to see Long Compton from the ridge.
The stones are owned and looked after by the Rollright Trust, a small charity with no public funding, which asks £2 per adult and £1 per child aged 7 to 16, paid online, by the QR code on site or in cash at the honesty box. They are normally open all year, day and night, and there is no visitor centre. Parking is two small lay-bys on a road busy with lorries, which fill quickly. Dogs are welcome on leads but not inside the stone circle.
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