Hoar Stone
The Hoar Stone chamber tomb (also called "Enstone Hoar Stone" or Monument No. 450399) is located between Neat Enstone and Fulwell, where the B4022 (Charlbury Road) meets Cors Lane, in Oxfordshire , England . Hoar Stone (also falsely referred to as Portal Tomb ) stands a few meters from Cors Lane in the Enstone Plantation. The village name Enstone comes from Entastan, stone of a (local) giant .
The remains of the tomb chamber neolithischen ( English chambered tomb ) consist of three upstanding stones. The largest is the almost 3.0 m high "the Old Soldier" ( German "the old soldier" ). It is part of an arch that faces east and has other broken plates at its feet that may be part of a capstone. When OGS Crawford (1886–1957) visited the grave in 1925, six stones were visible standing on the remains of a mound. The remains of the hill have disappeared since the 19th century.
Local legend has it that the stones return to their places when someone tries to move them and that the old soldier goes to the village to drink on a summer night. The term "Hoar", which also applies to several other monuments, probably comes from the goddess Hoeur.
The roughly named Hoarstones form a stone circle in Chirbury and Brompton in Shropshire . Hoar Stone is the name of a longbarrow west of Cirencester in Gloucestershire and a chamber grave remnant at Stepple Barton in West Oxfordshire.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '39.4 " N , 1 ° 27' 7.3" W.