Just four miles from the Welsh border, between the B4348 and the
B4352, on a beautiful hill near Dorstone in Herefordshire,
stands Arthur's Stone. We were privileged to have friends who
live nearby take us there (just a short drive from their house).
Arthur's Stone, another view From Authur's Stone, a view of the
Golden Valley From the nearby sign, above: 'Arthur's Stone is a
multi-chambered tomb of the neolithic period dating from between
about 3700 and 2700 BC. (This is conjecture, and may not have
been quite that long ago.)* Neolithic people were the first
inhabitants of Britain to farm the land and make pottery, but
they had not yet discovered the use of metal. (Although there
had been others who had worked with metals prior to that time,
so it's possible that those skills had simply not yet migrated
to Britain.)* They lived in small communities, perhaps numbering
no more than 25-100 people. One of their settlements has been
discovered on Dorstone Hill, just to the southeast of here,
where flint tools, st