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37.—Kit’s Coty House. Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait. [more...] |
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38.—King’s Coty House Another picture of King’s Coty’s House; compare Fig. 37. There is also a picture of this in Francis Grose’s Antiquities. [more...] |
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39.—Trevethy Stone Trevethy Stone, also known as Trethevy Quoit, is a Domen or Cromlech near Liskeard in Cornwall. [more...] |
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40.—Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey See also Grose’s Antiquities for an older engraving of this neolithic burial tomb. [more...] |
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41.—Constantine Tolman, Cornwall I believe this Tolman was destroyed in 1869, although I found no reference to it at the Constantine Village Web site. [more...] |
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42.—Wayland Smith’s Cave “In the neighbourhood of Lambourn, in Berkshire, are many barrows, and amongst them is found the cromlech called Wayland Smith. The tradition which Scott has so admirably used in his ‘Kenilworth’ that a supernatural smith here dwelt, who would shoe a traveller’s horse for a “consideration,” is one of the many superstitions that belong to these places [...] [more...] |
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44.—hare Stone, Cornwall “In the parish of Sancred, in Cornwall, is a remarkable stone called the Hare Stone (hare or hoar meaning literally border or boundary), with a heap of stones lying around it (Fig. 44). It is held that these stones are precisely similar to the heap and the pillar which were collected and set up at the covenant between Jacob and Laban, recorded in the scriptures with such interesting minuteness. It is stated by Rowland, the author of ‘Mona Antiqua,’ [...] [more...] |
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45.—Coronation Chair “The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also says that King Kenneth, in the ninth century, transferred it to Scone, and enclosed it in a wooden chair. The monkish tradition was, that it was the identical [...] [more...] |
