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I've made it., staying in Staunton-on-Wye. A window of sunlight appeared this morning and we made it to Arthur's Stone. What a wonderful site - hesitate to use the word but magical. Don't know if I'll work out how to post any photos. Never mind! A wonderful unspoilt corner of England ... almost Wales.

T tjj

I have tried unsuccessfully to add a fieldnote but not able to post it so rather than lose what I typed am posting it here. Perhaps TMA Ed could check out the fieldnote function. Thanks in advance.

tjj's fieldnote for Arthur's Stone:
Am rather late to the party with this site. Herefordshire is a couple of counties away from where I live but have only ever passed through on the way to Wales. Earlier in the year my niece posted some photos elsewhere of this astonishing site so resolved to track it down. She had stayed at the Red Lion in the village of Bredwardine, which is fairly close by (I stayed for a few nights in the village of Staunton on Wye).

The weather was not kind, heavy rain fell overnight and the day of planned trip to Arthur's Stone was wet. I was with an intrepid friend with a small car who was doing the driving and could not have found Arthur's Stone without their driving skill. Road very narrow and steep - easy to go straight on and miss the turning. But find it we did, and magically the rain stopped, the clouds cleared and the sky blue. It is a beautiful and comparatively unsung site (I live in Wiltshire) - very much worth the effort. Stayed for a while to take in the atmosphere - there was an beguiling footpath sign pointing across adjacent fields but unfortunately everywhere was rather soggy from the previous night's rain.
Later in our stay we found the remains of a stone circle just the other side of Hay on Wye near the beginning of Offa's Dyke.

Herefordshire has a lot to offer, though somewhat hidden away and not prehistoric. It seems to be a place of pilgrimage as we met a couple doing a 60 mile pilgrimage walk from Hereford Cathedral. We discovered on our own much shorter walks all the little Romanesque churches (dated from 1140s) were open - presumably for pilgrims to sleep in.