Winter Solstice 2005
Rolllright Stones, Oxfordshire This was a fabulous place to visit. We arrived as the night was closing in, but the moon was shining bright and the stars very vivid. We walked around the stone circle and investigated and felt quite awe struck in the shining moon imagining what it must have been like many years before. We also visited the Kingstone and Whispering Knights in a field opposite the main road. The 5000 year old burial chamber, believed to be part of a Neolithic long barrow . The Knights are a small group of five upright stones , who got their name because of the conspiratorial way in which they lean inwards towards each other as if they are plotting against their king, a separate stone. We checked the following out: "It is said that at one time Long Compton was a favorite place for witches - as many as 14 witches are said to have lived in the village at one time. But the witch of our tale was Mother Shipton of Shipton-under-Wytchwood who lived from 1488 to 1551. A would...