Priddy Nine Barrows â Folklore by Rhiannon
I wonder if you can throw any light on the following experience I had some 12 or 14 years ago? I had taken my family on Mendip Top, somewhere near Castle of Comfort, and we were picnicking, having...
View ArticleDunsinnan Hill â Folklore by Rhiannon
On Dunsinane Hill between Perth and Dundee, Macbeth is supposed to have hidden a kettle full of gold when fleeing from his castle. It is predicted that the finder will be a woman with auburn hair, the...
View ArticleMaeshowe â Folklore by Rhiannon
Excavation work began on the Brough of Birsay last week. Mr Drever is again in charge of the operations, and most of the workmen who worked there in previous seasons have been re-engaged. A good area...
View ArticleAllt Preas Bhealaich â Folklore by Rhiannon
The legend of the Bodach Dhu. How much is traditional I don't know! The inhabitants of Braemore - the valley on the Caithness side of Morven - have for generations made their livelihood by farming, but...
View ArticleThe Trundle â Folklore by Rhiannon
In the same district, near to what must be the most delightfully situated racecourse in the land is the Trundle Hill, Goodwood, which takes its name from an ancient British earthwork on the summit,...
View ArticleThe Great Circle, North East Circle & Avenues â Folklore by Rhiannon
It is surprising what interesting things one may come across in the countryside. I was talking to a farmer acquaintance, Lionel Smart, who, apart from a brief spell as a Fleet Street journalist, has...
View ArticleWhipsiderry â Folklore by Rhiannon
I [spoke with] an old man of St Columb Minor, called Bill Pierce, who saw Copeland Borlase open the Trevelgue barrows. On the high cliffs, at an equal distance from each of the two Trevelgue tumuli, is...
View ArticleBarrowfields â Folklore by Rhiannon
[Bill Pierce of St Columb Minor] said that there is another Piskey Ring near the barrows in the Newquay fields. The men who fought there took their last stand fighting in a circle, back to back, and...
View ArticleTrevelgue Head â Folklore by Rhiannon
There is a way up from the beach to the mainland part of Trevelgue Island earthworks that is like a ship's gangway, between walls of rock. Up this, Bill Pierce said, the invaders drove the cattle they...
View ArticleMelancoose Round â Folklore by Rhiannon
No I don't know if this happened at the Round. But if local military pixies were going to live anywhere, you'd think it would be here. I suppose he might have meant they were wearing red clothes, like...
View ArticleAnstiebury Hillfort â Folklore by Rhiannon
A legend survives in connection with the storming of Entons Castle [at Capel], which relates that the Danes, having captured the stronghold, carried away the castle gates and bell to Anstiebury Camp,...
View ArticleSt Bride's Ring â Folklore by Rhiannon
As country folk will tell you, that bird called the oystercatcher, boldly dressed in black and white with a long straight bright red bill, has largely taken the place of the once-common lapwing, or...
View ArticleThe Hoar Stone (Steeple Barton) â Folklore by Rhiannon
Near Steeple Barton is another ruined cromlech, also called the "Hoar Stone," which is now only a confused heap of small stones, having been broken up by an ignorant farmer. Some fifty years ago it was...
View ArticleTreryn Dinas â Folklore by Rhiannon
From all I have seen myself of that kind, or read, or heard of, I know not a more singular [Rocking Stone] than that which I am describing. It stands at Castle Treryn, a promontory, consisting of three...
View ArticleDane's Stone â Folklore by Rhiannon
The field on which the [annual ploughing match of the Moulin Agricultural Association] took place was a nice slope below Baledmund House, on Pitfourie Farm, kindly granted for the occasion by Mr...
View ArticleWick â Folklore by Rhiannon
Replies To Queries. 496 - The Golden Valley. The origin of this name goes right back to the days of the Druids - indeed, farther than that. At Upton Cheyney in the Golden Valley may be seen some stones...
View ArticleLancashire â Folklore by The Eternal
https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/ancient-sites/weeton-cairn-boggart/ Weeton Cairn probably comes under a "site of disputed antiquity." Now also under the embankment of the M55. As for the boggart......
View ArticleBervie Brow â Folklore by Rhiannon
"Bervie Brow," so called, is a promontory on the north side of the Bervie stream, and its very existence seems to bar any extension of the railway to the north. Another name of the "Brow" is "Craig...
View ArticleRubh an Dunain â Folklore by drewbhoy
Imagine an ancient time at Rubh' an Dùnain around 3000 years ago. A small procession winds its way towards a stone cairn overlooking Loch Brittle to the north, and behind them to the south, their own...
View ArticleHoe Hill Long Barrow â Folklore by Blind Davey
The barrow gets it's alternative name of Cromwell's Grave from the local tradition that one of Cromwell's Roundheads was captured, killed and buried there. (Source: Internet) Read More
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