Blowing Stone

The Blowing Stone is a perforated sarsen in Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire, England [1]. The stone is in a garden at the foot of Blowingstone Hill just south of the Icknield Way, about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) west of Wantage and about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) east of White Horse Hill [1]. Blowingstone Hill is part of the escarpment of the Berkshire Downs [1]. The stone is capable of producing a booming sound if someone with the required skill blows into one of the holes the right way [1]. Legend tells that it could be heard atop White Horse Hill, where 19th-century antiquarians thought King Alfred the Great's Saxon troops had camped, and that this was how Alfred summoned them for the Battle of Ashdown against the Danes in 871 CE [1].