plan view of the circle in 1722. click on 'this album' link for more of Avebury.
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Superb Image and text explaining the Weyland myth and the connections with other myths and legends.
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Two slides of the smithy from the archive of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology.
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Includes the info:
'Adwell Cop is an ancient entrenchment supposed to have been constructed by the Danes when they burnt Oxford in 1010.'
(included here as links to change and expire)
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Clip from an episode of Robin of Sherwood (the eighties one, not the one on telly at the mo), entitled 'Swords of Wayland'. - they don't make them like they used too!
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Notes on Puck of Pooks Hill and the Sword of Weyland. Nice piccy of Mr Smith aswell.
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Teutonic/Scandinavian Roots of Mr Smith. Not sure I want to go into the 'Spae-Realms' though, down the pub sounds like more fun. ;-)
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Interesting look at how Blacksmiths are viewed as devilish in folklore and culture. Much text about the Vulcan!
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official Icknield Way web site (encompasess the Rudge)
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Text and images.
Get your paps out for the landscape!
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Pusey Horn and Cherbury Camp Legend
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'Fighting to preserve the spirit of The Ridgeway'
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Brief description and some aerial photographs from the 1930's.
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Excerpt:
'This is apparently the only archaeological site on Port Meadow recognised prior to 1933; it is marked on the map as Round Hill. It consists of a low irregular mound, 1? ft. high and 115 ft. in diameter, somewhat disturbed on the E. side. Round it is a circular ditch, which shows on the ground on the S. side only; the complete circle has been proved by probing. Placed on the W. edge of this mound, and overlapping the ditch, is a second, smaller mound, some 45 ft. in diameter, with steep sides rising to a height of 4 ft. above the surface of the Meadow. At the top is a small crater, traces of a previous opening about which nothing is known.'
There are some diagrams as well.
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A Neolithic Oval Barrow is mentioned in the text, as well as significant bronze age remains. Site was investigated in 1933.
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image of Christopher Castle's painting of the circle
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View on prehistoric metallurgy and Wayland
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Live near the Ridgeway and most interested in sites 'up the rudge'.
Hates: people leaving rubbish at Wayland Smithy (groan, gripe, rant, rage, dribble etc!)
Loves: people taking their rubbish away with them in bags. And yes, that includes nitelites, coins (at least make them silver!), glass, sweet wrappers and dog ends.
Q. what's brown and sticky?
A. try collecting firewood at Waylands.
THINK. would you shit in a church?
... ... ... here endeth the rant
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Doesn't pagan to a roman just mean some old person who lives in the sticks?
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"
"God dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor not a Dealer"
"We have sat waiting like this many times before. Sometimes I tire... of the fighting and killing. At night, I can hear the call of my race. They wait for me. When I join them, we will be forgotten."
"We're dealing with a Gnome! A Devil!... A Devil? Now you listen to me. The Devil in the Keep wears a black uniform, has a Death's Head in his cap, and calls himself a Sturmbannführer!"
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