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Beaulieu Heath

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery

Folklore

A forester accounted for the tumuli on Beaulieu Heath in this fashion:-- "We calls ut Saltpetre Bank. All these here mounds was throwd up by Uliver Crummle when he tuk the Farest; he and the Danes beat the English the fust time they ever was beat, and he druv the English into Wales."
Hampshire Folklore
D. H. Moutray Read
Folklore, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Sep. 30, 1911), pp. 292-329.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
1st October 2006ce

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