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Sycamore Cave

Cave / Rock Shelter

Folklore

Who knows which barrow this could now refer to? it is / was somewhere on Ecton Hill, so near this cave. But it gives a flavour of the folklore that such places inspire.
In the digging open a Low on Ecton hill near Warslow in this County, there were found mens bones as I was told of an extraordinary Size, which were preserved for some time by one Mr. Hamilton Vicar of Alstonfield; and I was inform'd of the like dugg up at Mare in the foundation of the Tower; but these being buryed again, or otherwise disposed of before I came there, I can say little to them.
From Robert Plot's 'Natural History of Staffordshire' of 1686 (hence all the italics.) 		Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
10th January 2010ce
Edited 10th January 2010ce

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