Hi Rhiannon, it was an excellent piece of lore. Wade, Bell, the cow, the baby, the Old Wife and of course Old scratch are responsible for just about all of our NYM landscape features. I spent the last couple of years trying to pick out the threads of these tales but am still really none the wiser. It's just reassuring to know that something of our native creation mythologies still exists.

Regarding the Guisbro' / Whitby thing. I enjoy the continuing rivalry between fishers and farmers (scaley backs and wooly backs) I see farmers as essentially solar people who live their lives by the seasons and are in it for the long game. I see fishers as lunar people who live their lives by the tides and deal with more immediate elemental forces. I have flights of fancy regarding the interaction between the coast dwelling folks of the late Mesolithic and the new pastoralist/farmers.
I'm not sure how this all ties together but one line of investigation is the difference between the coastal burial mounds and the moorland mounds and the use of cupmarked stones in the mounds. I know I'm cutting across millenia here but I've got to get rock art into the mix haven't I?
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