Rufus Stone, Minstead, Hampshire
This monument commemorates the death of King William II, the son of William the Conqueror. He was known as William Rufus because of his ruddy complexion. It has the inscription "Here stood the oak tree on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag glanced and struck King William the Second, surnamed Rufus, on the breast on which he instantly died on the second day of August, Anno 1100".
