3 entries across places, people, and walks.
Folklore on the chalk uplands around Oxford clings to the prehistoric monuments more than to the city itself — the Rollright Stones with their countless-stones legend, the Uffington White Horse re-chalked by villagers for three thousand years, and Wayland's Smithy where (the story goes) a horse left overnight with a coin would be shod by morning. Most of what follows is attested as legend rather than fact; we mark it as such.
A 4,500-year-old stone circle on the Oxfordshire–Warwickshire border, with an older Neolithic burial dolmen and a probable Bronze Age standing stone — the most accessible major prehistoric site within reach of Oxford.
Britain's oldest chalk hill figure — a 110-metre stylised horse cut into the Berkshire Downs scarp at some point between 1380 and 550 BC, scoured and re-chalked by villagers for at least three thousand years.
An Early Neolithic chambered long barrow on the Ridgeway, completed around 3430 BCE — among Britain's best-preserved Severn-Cotswold tombs and a long day's walk from the Uffington White Horse.