I like a bit of folklore ... as I may have mentioned before, a site doesn't exist in the past, but in the present, and has done ever since it was constructed

In other words, they are not "ancient" objects, leaving in a hermetically sealed box of pastness, but have always been a part of living communities. To help the understand the meaning of a site, it's important to be aware of the mythology that has grown up around it. It's very helpful to be able to see how stories meld and differ across a wide range of site ... now, I believe there is such thing as an academic folklore motif-index - it's been a while since I did much research on this, but here's a recent edtion:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253338824/qid=1043837736/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_0_2/026-0059781-3412414

I'm not saying it's the last word or anything, but it'd be an interesting addition to the site, if we could shoehorn the existing folklore entires into these categories ...

now, that's what the web is all about

RG

ps hiya Baz ... it's getting to Devil's Quiots time again ....

I'll agree with that comment.

Placenames are often fossilised myth and these are very important when aiming to understand an historic landscape.

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