Off your head.

[Boreades]

It's well worth a look at, in my opinion. Wayland Smith gets a look in as well.

http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/

Definitely well worth a look. Now I'm going to have to amend my stories of what's on The Ridgeway Trail, and what they were really for.

[Boreades]

Just out of curiosity, who is Alexander Aberfeldy?

[hvered]

Wayland Smith gets a look in as well.

Another smith called St Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths and farriers and the royal engineers. He is, rather macabrely, supposed to have shod a horse by removing its foreleg which he then replaced, the horse apparently none the worse.

[Chad]

There is other stuff on her website that doesn't seem to be directly accessible from the "Home" page, such as:

http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter1

This is another set of chapters (1 to 13) but the only way (that I can find) to get to them is via the address bar (just keep changing the last digit from 1 through to 13)... note there is no colon before the chapter number (unlike the chapters listed on the home page).

(To change chapters, I think you will have to copy the link into a new browser window.)

The home page has an index and links to chapters 1 to 13
http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/

Fascinating stuff. I like the way she politely but firmly puts the boot into historical linguists and linguistics.
e.g. "I can demonstrate the inability of the Indo-European approach to explain in any coherent way the origins of European language"

Yes, there is a list of 13 chapters on the home page... e.g. chapter 1 (The Heathcote Sound and the Wordlist)

http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter:1

But there are another 13 chapters (another book?)... e.g. (a different) chapter 1 (The Last of The Dragons)

http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter1

Note: the second URL does not have a colon between "chapter" and "1"

You really must look at this second "book".

[Boreades]

Wayland Smith gets a look in as well.

Another smith called St Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths and farriers and the royal engineers. He is, rather macabrely, supposed to have shod a horse by removing its foreleg which he then replaced, the horse apparently none the worse.

That would probably be one of the Royal Engineer's training horses, demonstrating the merits of interchangeable parts.

[Boreades]

But there are another 13 chapters (another book?)... e.g. (a different) chapter 1 (The Last of The Dragons)
http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter1

Note: the second URL does not have a colon between "chapter" and "1"
You really must look at this second "book".

Ah, thanks for the correction. This second "book" is quite wonderful in its insights.

I still have no idea who A. Aberfeldy is, except (perhaps) she lives near Montplacé, Maine-et-Loire
See http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter3
"There is a seventeenth-century horned virgin in a chapel not a mile from here. The chapel of Montplacé, Maine-et-Loire, "

[spiral]

I am baffled, Spiral. What is the connection between a tidal pool and this?

The line of investigation is based round the folklore and the idea that venus=gwinver=guinivere=winifred.

Megalithic Empire pg 138 touches on the Winifred back story. You will note she was beheaded.

[hvered]

It's well worth a look at, in my opinion. ...
http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/

Thanks for recommending this, macausland, it's an amazing read! I'm completely hooked (how many hunting analogies come to mind) and impressed by the amount of research. I so wish I could have read it earlier but am cheered that the author sees the north as the original culture as it were.

[hvered]

You will note she was beheaded.

In the best Celtic saints' tradition, Winifred's head became a spring and she was then made whole as, apparently, were all those who bathed in it.

The spring which burst forth on the spot where her head rested is still flowing, and its stones are annually spotted with blood in commemoration of the miracle. Ever since it has been believed to have virtues like those of the Pool of Bethesda, and great multitudes of sick folic, blind, halt and withered step into it to be made whole of their diseases.

The location of Holywell on the southern bank of the Dee estuary on the west coast would be perfectly suited for a beacon I'd have thought.

[Chad]

Thanks for recommending this, macausland, it's an amazing read! I'm completely hooked (how many hunting analogies come to mind) and impressed by the amount of research. I so wish I could have read it earlier but am cheered that the author sees the north as the original culture as it were.

I put up a link to this over on the AEL site a while ago (and I'm sure Wiley has known about it for even longer).

Have you managed to access the other 13 "hidden" chapters?

Some great stuff in there.