Doorways and Stone Circles

Tomorrow is the day we start walking so today we took it relatively easy, meandering through Moreton-in-Marsh, looking at doors and architecture and enjoying the town minus the Tuesday market madness. Many of the head jambs on the doors are quite low, built for very short people. And the homes had names. Perhaps we should all name our homes.


In the afternoon, a delightful taxi driver took us to the Rollright Stones. This is a neolithic (between 3,000 and 2,200 B.C.) stone circle. The societies that erected stone circles left no written records, so the meaning and use is uncertain. They could be religious structures, celestial calendars, burial sites or something completely different. 

Rollright Stones is one of many circles across British Isles and France. We've visited Drombeg and Glebe stone circles (Ireland), Callanish (Outer Hebrides), and next week we'll visit Stonehenge. The mystery surrounding them is intriguing; this tangible connection to a pre-writing society is moving.


And then there is this: a John Deere rolled through town flying the Union Jack.

And an afternoon pub visit rounded out the day.

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