King Stone | interesting place

United Kingdom / England / Shipston on Stour /
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A single, weathered monolith, 2.4 metres high by 1.5 metres wide. Some archaeoastronomers claimed ancient knowledge of an alignment between the King Stone, the centre of the King's Men circle (to the southwest) and the star Capella as it rose in the sky. However, carbon dating of material found beneath the stone during an excavation in 1982 put the mean date of its erection at 1792 BC, much later than the other sites. The King Stone is more likely to have been a marker stone serving a now-destroyed cairn burial site.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones
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Coordinates:   51°58'34"N   1°34'12"W
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