The devil threw a stone from here to Cleeve Hill Tumulus, as you may read about on that page.
But due to my impressionable childhood mind voraciously devouring the Reader's Digest 'Strange Stories, Amazing Facts', Meon Hill always reminds me of the story of the witchcraft-related? murder of Charles Walton.
The article also teasingly mentions in passing that "there had long been stories of a ghostly black dog on Meon hill that heralded death to those it appeared to". The detective investigating the case is said to also have seen a black dog on the hill..
Meon Hill is topped by a large multivallate hill fort, one of only two in Warwickshire - it must have been a pretty important place in the Iron Age.
Traces of many huts have been found, and long ago there was discovered a hoard of currency bars:
"In the month of June last (1824) as some workmen were searching for lime-stone in a turnip field belonging to a Mr. Smith, situated in the centre of a Roman camp on Meon Hill.. they discovered about three feet below the surface 394 javelin-heads of iron, the blades of which were 28 inches long, and 3/4 of an inch wide, with the exception of one whose width was two inches. ..they were not above the thickness of a shilling..."
(p262 of the Gentleman's Magazine v94 pt2 (1824).
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