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Very easy to acess this site (long as you aren’t afraid of the horses whose home it is) as a public path goes straight through it. The fortifications are still pretty tall, about 2 or 3 meteres. In some place you can see bits of stonework poking through but whether these are iron age features or more recent I can’t be sure. I never claimed to be an archeologist. The bank itself is fenced off and has mature trees gorwing from it so you can’t access that but the space inside the circular banks is all accessable and pretty peaceful too.

I hadn’t expected it but this was my favourite part of the Rollright stones site. Yes its fenced in but you can see the imagery in the story of these stone figues leaning in and whispering to one another. This effect is especially pronounced if you walk down the hill some ways and look back at the stones.

Aside from the Whispering Knights, I really reccomment stepping through a gate into the woods just next to the dolmen. In there, you’ll find a 7-level labyrinth made from wooden logs and planted trees. I like to find the centre of the labyrinth and think of something that I wish to be rid of, then leave a physical offering in the centre and retrace my steps.

Saw this long barrow on an OS map whilst walking nearby and went to go check it out. It’s clearly visible from afar against an otherwise flat field. I acessed it from a farm track from the north which was easy but involved some climbing.

Up close, there isn’t much to explore. It’s a low mound, about 3 or 4ft high with a single small oak tree in the north-east corner. The banks have been badly damaged whether by ploughing or something else. I was interested to read on a previous post from 2011 about the site that there used to be four trees, one at each corner. Since then, the rest must have died. Speculating why there were trees planted, I thought that it may have something to do with the name, Oak piece, relating to the use of wood in the construction of the burial chambers. I can’t seem to find any more information about the name or whether wood even was used in its construction.

Despite there not being much to see, I found it an atmospheric place. Maybe because it sits isolated in an empty field (on the day I visited) or because the nearby farmhouse that overlooks it was abandoned. I found it easier here than in some of the more well known sites to imagine what it might have been like to follow a funeral procession to the site.