By Janet Bord, Colin Bord
Britain is a land jam-packed with attention-grabbing old websites and noteworthy actual beneficial properties. The panorama itself, with its many idiosyncrasies and weird features, serves as a key to the earlier - the stone circles, prehistoric family dwellings, tombs and temples, rock carvings, earthworks, holy wells and Roman continues to be, all include clues of civilisations gone and trace at how our ancestors used to dwell. during this lavishly-illustrated and intensely readable advisor, authors Janet and Colin Bord discover the origins of such positive aspects and examine the traditional websites linked to folklore and legend.
Short excerpt:
Devil's Bridge
There are quite 3 bridges the following above one another, crossing
the River Mynach the place it runs via a deep gorge. The
lowest of the 3 used to be outfitted by way of the satan, based on legend .
He observed that an outdated woman's cow was once stranded at the mistaken side
of the gorge and acknowledged he may construct her a bridge if he could
become the landlord of the 1st dwelling creature to exploit it. She
agreed, but if the bridge used to be accomplished she threw a section of
bread over , which used to be chased through her puppy, and the satan was
outwitted. In one other model of this tale...
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L ocation: Trall ong is 5 mil es west o f Brecon , and the sto ne is insi d e th e churc h . (SN 966296) Thi s Og ham stone was found in use as a wind ow lint el wh e n t he church was restored in 186 1. 'D. A Latin ri ng· cross was added late r, on th e part of th e sto ne th at was b uried in the g round when it was serving it s o rigin al purpose as a g raves tone or m emorial. Ab erlemno Pictish symbol stone, Angus/Tayside Region L ocation: Th e stone show n here is in Aberlemno churchya rd ( the re are othe rs b y th e road side ) ; Aberl emno is 5 mil es no rth-east of Forfar .