On 2007-01-10 20:53, cropredy wrote:
Winterbloom,
I have I believe everything written about the rollrights.
The most thorough is by George Lambrick , of the Oxford archaeological unit of 1983.
They conducted a survey of all around the area.
He has reported on all the known references and drawings of the knights, and carried out a field survey around them, they produced a drawing of a portal barrow, but could not state as fact if this was true, neither could they say if it was a round mound or a long barrow.
I have my own method of looking at such structures, and by comparing what I detect at other similer long and round barrows can formulate my own idea as to what it was.
Unfortunately you have raised this question on the serious side of this portal door way, and if I discuss my way of looking at these things, it wakes them up and gives them a rash.
So I will say this quietly, just to you, shhh, its a long barrow.with two flows from the circle creating spirals along them, behind the stones looking from the circle, I also KNOW why they are called the whispering knights, so really quietly, shhh in a whisper, you need to stand on the spot where they are, on top of them, but they have been imprisoned and earthed somewhat by IRON railings.
I have been whispered to by them.
Kevin

On 2007-01-10 22:43, cropredy wrote:
If possible winterbloom, I would prefer to carry on this discussion over on the sacred sites side of the portal door, otherwise It will cause a problem.
kevin

On 2007-01-11 11:21, coldrum wrote:
English Heritage Pastscape record:

"Monument Number: 968858 (SP 23 SE 31)

URL to bookmark this monument:
http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.asp?hob_no=968858

A free standing portal dolmen which forms part of the Rollright Stones monument complex. The portal dolmen measuring approximately 1.8 metres square and comprising four vertically set stones between 1.5 metres - 2.4 metres in height and a fallen capstone. It was thought to originally be covered by a long barrow. This interpretation seems most likely especially in view of Ravenhill's find of a human skull fragment within the chamber although Grinsell's suggestion that it was a `cove' connected with the stone circle (SP 23 SE 29) has not been fully refuted. Excavations around the stones in 1983, designed to locate traces of a mound and quarry ditches, showed that no substantial features remained. The east side showed traces of the original soil which contained Neolithic, Iron Age and Roman pottery. The occurance of the latter suggests that if there was a mound it may have been removed by the end of the prehistoric period. No evidence of any quarry ditches were recorded, however, there was ambiguous evidence for a round cairn or platform mound. Flints including a scraper and plano-convex knife have been recovered from ploughed land within the immediate vicinity of the stones. The portal dolmen is estimated to date to between 3800-3000 BC. Scheduled. "


The Rollright legend:

http://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/index.shtml

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