NEW! #BarnOwl at #Rollright is just finished!
It's the first #painting I've done for weeks due to frequent interruptions from various building projects at home.
I hope you like it & thx for looking 🙏
Watercolour, 352mm x 237mm, £225. Msg me!
#standingstoneSunday #rollrightstones #megalithic #art #birds #tytoalba

The ‘Whispering Knights’ - the remains of an early Neolithic burial chamber in Oxfordshire. The chamber is part of the Rollright Stones complex, with stone circle and standing stone nearby. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Oxfordshire #RollrightStones

This collapsed portal dolmen is part of the Rollright Stones threesome of monuments along the border between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England in the Cotswolds region. It dates from around 6000 years ago, early/middle Neolithic period. Its capstone has fallen and lies beside the upright stones and is not shown in this image. The stones are collected (not quarried) local oolitic limestone and are deeply pockmarked by the weather. It is known as the 'Whispering Knights' and there is much folklore associated with this and the newer nearby stone circle. It is humbling to think that this design from that period is found across Europe, Russia, Middle-East, India and especially Korea (which has at least 40% of the world's dolmens alone!).


#cotswolds #rollrightstones #whisperingknights #dolmen #neolithic #oxfordshire #england

#SilentSunday #RollrightStones #StandingStoneSunday #LongCompton #KingsMen

Staying for a bit more near #WatfordGap, this week visited #BletchleyPark, the #RollrightStones couple more places near #Banbury and #Coventry, the #CastleRing and lots of highway junctions.

The Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border about 10 years ago. Photo 1 is The King Stone, the second is The King’s Men, the last is The Whispering Knights plus some idiot with a greyhound larking about because I don’t seem to have a photo of them on their own 😁
#StandingStoneSunday #RollrightStones

#RollrightStones
After taking this, I did some dowsing in the middle and found each stone connected to the centre by it's own individual "spoke" like a giant wheel.
#dowsing