Arthur’s Stone, a 5,000-year-old monument connected to King Arthur, now being excavated

Researchers from the University of Manchester and English Heritage, the charity that cares for Arthur’s Stone in the West Midlands of England, are conducting an excavation of the site in hopes of finding traces of the Neolithic Era Britons who built and used the chambered tomb. (University of Manchester)

Some say King Arthur slayed a giant there. Others say he knelt in prayer and that, as a result, his knee print indentations are forever etched into the stone.

Now, archaeologists are trying out to find out just how big what’s been dubbed Arthur’s Stone is — and what really happened at the 5,000-year-old, Neolithic Era, chambered tomb in Herefordshire, England, near the border of Wales.