The Legend of the Rollright Stones | Exploring the Cotswolds 

Have you ever stopped off at the Rollright stones? What did you think? Let us know!

Visit almost every year from Michigan with my mother who lives in Middleton Cheney.

Please, if you haven't yet, you must check out the song by Traffic called "Rollright Stones", it was my introduction to them (i live in the US after all) and I think its a great song. Its long though, over 8 minutes. I think one version is close to 14 minutes. Its a multi part composition from a 60/70s rock band so of course its long and about mystical

No matter how many times you count the stones, you never get the same total!!!

Cool ledgend...wonderful views...fantastic storyteller... Wishing you well. Thank you dear Robin 🇬🇧🇷🇺

Yes we have, enjoyed our visit and found it most intriguing......then we were off to the Great Tew!!!!

It’s the highest place in Oxfordshire apparently, hence being a site of importance back in the day

We were there in 1989. One thing you did not mention is that if you take two more steps, the village comes into full view.

Wish we could have seen the stones when we were there, just not enough time in our schedule! ☹️

The ancient s used them as calendars. Then the farmers used them as well to predict what was the best crops to grow depending on where the sun shone or set on which stones .

Love the way you present the stones. We have filmed them but not presented them as well as you. Great channel and although you are not bothered about another subscriber you have required some more. 🎥🌈👍

Everytime I look at these stones I think they mark the place a leader of a group area would stand during meetings. Be they meetings to settle disputes or watch fights, or choose brides or husbands. My other choice is where the war leader has his men of war stand around him. Remember there were king like figures all the way back then. Possibly a games day was held, like a triathlon ending at this point. Then The "marriage" of sorts to combine houses for war & harvest. I think each area of people moved their own stone into place and that seat or standing spot was passed down or over to brother. A sort of knights of the round table but of more distance and frequency of only quarterly. If I lived during this time I would look forward to going to meed others, I'm sure they did. Ofcourse Business was done, not only laws, quarrels, Fighting Settled, Feuds settled, marriages, Seeing daughter's & son's to far to visit, games, new hunting/farming/fishing, everything was done. Who would send what riders where in danger etc.

Nonsense, these are the remains of a quarry , the ancient sea bed broken up and used all over the region for building, the poor quality sections used to prevent thieves taking stone easily overnight, when the section of solidified coral and sea bed was gone what was left is what we see today, or maybe not 😂