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Re: Seen something similar near Avebury?
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fitzcoraldo wrote:
The site was known as Elfhow in 1488. This may be a corruption of elfshot, an old term for a prehistoric axe.
In Northumbrian folklore, 'elf shot' is used to describe flint arrowheads, which brings things sniffing back in the direction of those Welsh arrowstones.


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Posted by Hob
16th June 2008ce
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