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| Re: Rollright Stones (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, 23 February 2002 |
| Jeff Knabel writes:
Hello, I visited the 'Rollright Stones' back in 1984 when I was stationed at 'RAF Upper Heyford' with my father. I wrote a poem called 'The Stones' about it. I included the poem in the beginning of a song I wrote as well, which will be available on the internet soon. Here's the poem, written as if I were the 'King Stone' after dealing with the witch and being turned to stone. 'The Stones' If I I had the power to remain the same from now until never, would it mean I'll never have to wait until tomorrow comes. Standing in my place I feel the wind against my face in the evening, sorry I'm so quiet but I think that I've been turned to stoned. Turned to Stone. Walking through the forrest I can see that you've been waiting for me, it seems that I've been fooled into the fortune of another man. My soldiers in the distance were the answer to my only existance, though I fear existance was the reason why they turned to stone. Turned to stone. Thanks, Jeff Knabel |
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| Kapoor gives Rollright Stones a shining steel companion (Score: 1) by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 July 2003 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Kapoor gives Rollright Stones a shining steel companion
By Rebecca Armstrong, from The Independent 16 July 2003 Forget the Tate Modern - the sculptor Anish Kapoor has found an older and far more venerable location for his work. Kapoor has installed his work Turning the World Inside Out at the site of the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire in an attempt to make people look at art in new ways. The work is a shining steel globe 188cm (6ft 3in) high made by Kapoor in 1997 and appears in stark contrast to the stone monuments believed to have been erected in the late Neolithic period around 3000BC. It is on loan from the collection of Cartwright Hall in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and is said to evoke the female and male Hindu cosmic symbolism. The National Art Collection Fund is behind the rehousing as part of its "Extraordinary Art" season. The fund aims to gain new audiences by taking works out of museums and galleries and placing them in unusual settings. The artist said he hoped the exhibit would "show that the modern and the ancient have the same intention and will bring new audiences to appreciate the beauty of both". The sculpture can be viewed from sunrise to sunset in Long Compton, Oxfordshire, until 3 August. |
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| Re: Kapoor gives Rollright Stones a shining steel companion (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, 03 April 2004 |
| Some sites around here were trashed by victorian over zealous religious bigots, who buried the stones but did not make to good a job, finding out were they are now was not to dificult. I did this by looking at old maps, and folklore. Perhaps your area might produce something. Arthur, Burbage,Leicestershire. |
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| Rollendrith (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Sunday, 12 September 2004 |
| In the neighbourhood of Oxford there are great stones, arranged as it were in some connection by the hand of man. But at what time; or by what people; or for what memorial or significance, is unknown. Though the place is called by the inhabitants Rollendrith Anonymous Cambridge Clerk - 14th Century |
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| Re: Vandals target Rollright Stones (Score: 1) by kooljeff on Sunday, 23 September 2007 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Aren't our English youth wonderful? |
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| Arson destroys Rollrights hut (Score: 1) by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2006 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| The hut, at the Rollright Stones on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, was completely destroyed in the blaze on Sunday. It had been used to store visitor guides and merchandise. Police said the fire was unrelated to an incident in March 2004 when 70 of the Neolithic stones were splashed with yellow paint. More: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4644482.stm |
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| Re: Arson destroys Rollrights hut (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
| I have been going to the Rollrights stones for many years now,the hut was a meeting place where people were friendly,someone lent my daughter a pair of boots because it was muddy,we don't harm any body, what have people got against us, is it because we have a different view on life |
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| Rollrights talk in November (Score: 1) by Andy B on Friday, 23 June 2006 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| George Lambrick will be giving a talk about the rollright stones at Long Compton History Society on Wed 8th Nov 2006 at 7.30pm Entrance is £2 and there should be rollright merchandise for sale |
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| Haunting secrets of Rollright Stones are revealed (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
| THE haunt of witches for centuries, and a site shrouded in mystery, the Rollright Stones near Long Compton may have some secrets revealed this weekend and next weekend as part of National Archaeology Week. Visitors on both weekends will enjoy free admission and guided tours by archaeologists including the chairman of the Rollright Trust, George Lambick, formerly director of the Council of British Archaeology, and Dr Gill Hey of Oxford Archaeology. This weekend will also include a storyteller and next weekend a dowser will be giving lessons in the ancient art of water divining. "This is an ideal opportunity to find out about the history and legends of one of Oxfordshire's oldest monuments," said trust spokesman Dohn Prout. The stones, including a stone circle, a group of stones and a solitary rock, are said to date back to 3,800BC, making them older than Stonehenge. Legend has it that a witch turned a king and his men into the stones and herself into a tree, and the site has been a meeting place for witches since the Tudor times. Visitors will also be allowed to see the ghostly images on an inside wall of the site hut that left by a fire earlier this year. http://www.thisisthecotswolds.co.uk/the_cotswolds/news/COTS_NEWS_ROUNDUP5.html |
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| Re: Haunting secrets of Rollright Stones are revealed (Score: 1) by coldrum on Saturday, 22 July 2006 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| A Tom Baker Dr Who episode was filmed here, The Stones of Blood with blood sucking stones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stones_of_Blood |
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| The Rollright Project (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 12 September 2006 |
| The Rollright Project was set up by a group of friends for whom the Stones, and what has happened to them, has a particular interest. It was set up specifically to help raise the funds for the new warden's hut. This would principally be through the production of a limited print-run CD, that would be sold and the proceeds given over to the Trust. Also through a number of benefit gigs. http://www.rollrightproject.org/ |
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| Re: The Rollright Project (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
| I have a copy of the Rollright Project CD - it is a very good mix of traditional folk and blues. The people involved are a wonderful bunch of people, the prime instigators had their Handfasting at the Stones, and it was when they went to revisit the Stones on their anniversary that they discovered what had happened to the wardens' hut. The good news is that all the production costs of the CD have been meet, and so every copy that is sold is 100% profit for the restoration work! There was a benefit gig at the Red Lion Inn in Little Compton on the 16th September, and there are more gigs planned. |
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| Vandals target Rollright Stones (Score: 1) by coldrum on Wednesday, 19 September 2007 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Conservationists are considering using CCTV to protect Oxfordshire's Rollright Stones following the latest vandal attack. At the weekend, vandals daubed swastikas on the warden's hut at the ancient stones near Chipping Norton. They set fire to a stone in the stone circle and damaged a 1930s information plaque next to the King's Stone. They also stole £7 from a cash box at the hut. George Lambrick, chairman of the Rollright Trust charity, said: "We are considering installing some kind of CCTV system here to deter further attacks. "There are 59 different species of lichen that grow on the stones and we will be trying to find out if the fire has damaged them." The circle of 70 stones, said to be one of the most important in the country and believed to be 3,500 years old, was seriously damaged in April 2004, when vandals splattered them with yellow paint. The attack caused an estimated £50,000 worth of damage. Claire Gourlay, a spokesman for Thames Valley Police, said: "We are investigating this attack and an officer has visited the site to assess the potential benefit of scenes-of-crime officers attending to gather forensic evidence." Call police on 08458 505505 if you have any information. http://oxfordmail.net/mostpopular.var.1678473.mostviewed.vandals_target_rollright_stones.php |
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| Re: Vandals target Rollright Stones (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, 22 September 2007 |
| Visit the Rollrights often, these stones contain a very strong Mother Earth feel to them, I always enjoy the time there, it reminds me of mornings at home having breakfast with my mum at the table all that while ago..Never felt the steel sculpure did anything but reduce and break the Ley force of the ancient site, for the time it was there the site for me was dead of all influence...Just to the west and the east is other ancient sites still active, feels like standing stones or even small circles of stone,in the village to the south some gardens contain large single stones, perhaps removed from the early ancient sites for safety...To the north/east is Whichford, where I found an ancient long gone stone circle, that the owners replaced as I felt it once was, so today the circle stands proud again where it belongs.Just down the road is a long lost Holy Well, where in the woods the spring feeds the lower stream that runs along the fields, a place of wonder and magic still today...In the village of Long Compton you can still feel the influence of the witches just north of the Church there, where the stream goes under the road and at the road going west further on...All around the influence of this magical place can be felt, warm and with a welcome for those with eyes to see and hearts to feel...mmike. |
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| Re: Vandals target Rollright Stones (Score: 1) by glen on Saturday, 06 October 2007 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| i happened to travel past the rollright stones this Oct 4th for the first time in 20 years, in all innocence of the recent vandalisations. i spent a lovely hour there with 3 other gentle souls and didn't notice any evidence of destruction, paint or fire. there is a square yard of recovering grass near the circle centre, and a worn path just inside the circle, but visitors will not be shocked or disappointed. the only strange anachronism is the iron monolithic 'hut' that seems to have been a focus of violence. the modern explanation poster is clear and useful to find the 'outliers'. i was struck how the King Stone looks like the sole survivor of an early bronze age LongBarrow group. it is on the side of a very pronounced Long Barrow-shaped mound parallel to the road, and there must be associated stones still to be found here . (my last visit was to see Mark Rylance -now Globe Theatre director- playing Prospero in Shakepeare's Tempest inside the circle itself.) |
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| Re: Vandals target Rollright Stones (Score: 1) by coldrum on Tuesday, 18 December 2007 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Suspected arson at stone circle A prehistoric stone circle on the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire border has been damaged by suspected arson. The volunteers' office at the Rollright Stones was broken into over the weekend, and a gas heater turned on and placed against wooden furniture. A small fire began, causing only minor damage, but police said they were concerned for the welfare of the site. "The Rollright Stones have been targeted several times over the last year", Pc Rob Kelly said. "Whatever the motivation behind these attacks, what it boils down to is wanton criminal damage and we are doing all we can to stop it. "We need the public's help in this. If you saw anything suspicious in the area of the stones over the weekend, please get in touch." In previous separate attacks, the visitor hut was burnt to the ground and the stones were daubed in bright yellow paint in 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7137656.stm |
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| BBC Link (Score: 1) by coldrum on Sunday, 14 September 2008 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/webcams/stories/2003/07/rollright-stones.shtml |
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| a very weired and specail night! (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 |
| one night with my friends we were on our way to banbury to a party..The party didint happen and made our way back past the roll rights to evesham. i have been here before but only in the day..Any way we parked right outside by the entrance so my friends could have a fag...The next thing i saw was lots of little lights coming towards me i started to panic they were dancing around the car, jumping in and out of each other it was weired..it felt like we couldnt go and where and that we were their for ages..then all of a sudden the driver just went all the lights followed us to the end of the hedge row then dissapered ..what a night! |
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| Rollright stones on youtube (Score: 1) by graemefield on Wednesday, 06 May 2009 (User Info | Send a Message) |
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| Re: Rollright stones (Score: 1) by coldrum on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 (User Info | Send a Message) |
| Pastscape: http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=968686 |
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