Rollright Stones
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 19, 2021 10:52 AM
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History
tags:
megalithic,
extant remains
A complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments dating from the fourth to second millennia B.C. located on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in the English Midlands.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/104590908
51.9756729333, -1.5688052
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the Whispering Knights (4000 BC - 800 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of the King's Men (4000 BC - 800 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of King Stone (4000 BC - 800 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Rollright Stones (English, modern)
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monument
- See Further:
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- English Heritage, ROLLRIGHT STONES
- Evans, Arthur J. 1895. "The Rollright Stones and Their Folk-Lore." Folklore 6.1:6-53.
- Grinsell, L. V. 1977. The Rollright Stones and their folklore. Toucan Press.
- Lambrick, G. 1983. The Rollright Stones : the archaeology and folklore of the Stones and their surroundings, a survey and review. Oxford.
- Lambrick, G. 1988. The Rollright Stones : megaliths, monuments, and settlement in the prehistoric landscape. London: istoric Buildings and Monuments Commission for England.
- Rollright Stones
- Wikipedia (English) Rollright Stones
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Ryan Horne, 'Rollright Stones: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/104590908> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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