Harold's Stones, rangée de pierres préhistoriques, Trellech, Monbucshire, pays de Galles, Royaume-Uni, regardant ne vers l'église Saint-Nicolas. Trois piliers de « pierre pudding » locale.
3791 x 4961 px | 32,1 x 42 cm | 12,6 x 16,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
5 octobre 1993
Lieu:
Harold's Stones, Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
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Harold's Stones stone row, Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, looking NE to St Nicholas' Church. Three pillars of local 'pudding stone' (conglomerate sandstone) in a row aligned approximately NE-SW. The central stone is dressed flat & carved with two cupmarks. The Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age row may roughly indicate the midwinter sunset to the SW & midsummer sunrise to the NE. Folklore suggests the stones were thrown (pecked) from Skirrid Mountain by Jack o' Kent, a wizard in league with the Devil, when he was playing quoits on his own or against the Devil. A fourth stone (the Pecked Stone) fell short & was removed in the C18th to allow a field to be ploughed. Other legends connect the stones with the defeat of Britons in Gwent by Harold Godwinson in 1063: they simply commemorate his victory &/or mark the burials of three of his chieftains killed in battle. The stones are carved on the sundial inside St Nicholas' Church along with the Latin inscription "Here Harold was victorious".
