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The Rollright Stones is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex located on the border between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in the English Midlands. The site comprises three distinct elements: the King's Men, a ruined stone circle of Neolithic origin; the Whispering Knights, a chambered long barrow; and the King Stone, a solitary standing stone. The King's Men circle originally contained around seventy stones arranged in a roughly circular formation, though many have been lost or displaced over centuries. The monuments are thought to date primarily to the third and second millennia before Christ, representing significant ritual and ceremonial landscapes of prehistoric Britain, and the site has attracted continued interest and folklore associations throughout the medieval and modern periods.
The Rollright Stones is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018400. View the official record →
The Rollright Stones is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex located on the border between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in the English Midlands. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018400.
The Rollright Stones is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1018400.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Mount bell barrow 110m south west of Mount Farm (7.5 km), Squire's Clump Anglo-Saxon burial mound 500m south west of Iron Buildings (7.6 km), Moated site at Manor Farm (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Rollright Stones's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
The Rollright Stones stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.