This July, archaeologists began excavating the famous “Arthur’s Stone” in Herefordshire, England. A thousand years older than Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument is said to be the place where King Arthur slew a giant. But there’s another reason the 5,000-year-old site is legendary: it’s the inspiration for the Stone Table in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The real-life structure consists of nine standing stones supporting a 25-ton hulking quartz capstone. It measures 13 feet long and 7 feet wide. Arthur’s Stone and Lewis’s Stone Table are both low to the ground and consist of two “table” pieces, with a gap running down the middle.