Archaeologists Excavating the Real-Life “Stone Table” from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

This July, archaeologists began excavating the famous “<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62147953" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Arthur’s Stone</a>” 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. <a href="https://medium.com/exploring-history/archaeologists-excavating-the-real-life-stone-table-from-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-66e01398ca4d">Read More</a>