Arthur's Stone Herefordshire
* It took us a little time to find this remote site but when we arrived we had 5,000 years of history to ourselves and a magnificent view too.
Arthur's Stone is a Neolithic chambered tomb, or dolmen, in Herefordshire. It is situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley and the Wye Valley. The tomb dates from 3,700 BC – 2,700 BC.
The Golden valley is very green rather than golden. The name Golden Valley probably derives from a confusion of the name of the River Dore with the French d'or, meaning 'of gold'. The Normans might have confused the Welsh word dŵr, meaning 'water', with ‘d'or'.
There are strong literary connections to Arthurs stone .When the author C.S. Lewis was a boy in Belfast, he thought a painting of Herefordshire’s Golden Valley was a picture of heaven. The scene appears in the 1993 film, Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis.
When he came to write The Chronicles Of Narnia, Lewis was inspired by Arthur’s Stone in the Golden Valley. The 5,500-year-old tomb, is fancifully named after King Arthur . It’s the origin of the Stone Table on which Aslan is sacrificed in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
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Arthur's Stone Herefordshire
* It took us a little time to find this remote site but when we arrived we had 5,000 years of history to ourselves and a magnificent view too.
Arthur's Stone is a Neolithic chambered tomb, or dolmen, in Herefordshire. It is situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley and the Wye Valley. The tomb dates from 3,700 BC – 2,700 BC.
The Golden valley is very green rather than golden. The name Golden Valley probably derives from a confusion of the name of the River Dore with the French d'or, meaning 'of gold'. The Normans might have confused the Welsh word dŵr, meaning 'water', with ‘d'or'.
There are strong literary connections to Arthurs stone .When the author C.S. Lewis was a boy in Belfast, he thought a painting of Herefordshire’s Golden Valley was a picture of heaven. The scene appears in the 1993 film, Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis.
When he came to write The Chronicles Of Narnia, Lewis was inspired by Arthur’s Stone in the Golden Valley. The 5,500-year-old tomb, is fancifully named after King Arthur . It’s the origin of the Stone Table on which Aslan is sacrificed in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
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