Rhiannon wrote:
Ah I've been learning a bit of Welsh lately so I know enough to tell you it means 'Grey Stone'.
Or maybe it's not quite that dull. The Welsh Lexicon says 'brown, fawn; grey (gray); pale; hoar, hoary, grizzly, grizzled' which adds up to something a bit more interesting.
Thanks for that Rhiannon,Or maybe it's not quite that dull. The Welsh Lexicon says 'brown, fawn; grey (gray); pale; hoar, hoary, grizzly, grizzled' which adds up to something a bit more interesting.
Anyway you might find this really useful (though sometimes the beginnings of words have their letters 'mutated' which makes them a bit more complicated to find).
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html
Keep up the good work, I love reading about all your hillfort visits and your trips to all these lesser-known stones
A while ago I tried to track down the etymology of the word grey, with no real luck, in an attempt to try and make some sense of it's use as a prefix on so many of our hoary prehistoric monuments.
cheers
fitz
