Snails introduced during medieval times, including Cernuella virgata (pictured), have been found at the site [© Wikimedia Commons]
Snails introduced during medieval times, including Cernuella virgata (pictured), have been found at the site [© Wikimedia Commons]
A podcast I listen to was discussing this a few weeks or months ago. I wish I could remember which podcast it was. It’s somewhat of an interesting topic.
Huh. I thought the Hill Figure’s name was Tommy. I always heard of Tommy Hill Figure, anyway.
I read decades ago that it was proved to be a Roman era figure of Hercules and examination showed a lion skin, no longer visible, over his out stretched arm.
AKA The Rude Man.
That’s one big club....
And he’s happy to see you
Snail shell testing. I did not know there was such a thing.
“And upon the third hour of the night, the time of deepest sleep, he dreamed that he saw the goddess before him, speaking in this manner: “Brutus,” she said, “beneath the setting of the sun, beyond the land of Gaul, there lies an island in the sea in which giants once lived. It is empty now. Go there, for it is set aside for you and your descendants. And it shall be for your children like a second Troy, and kings shall be born of your line unto whom the whole earth shall pay homage!”
- Prophecy of the Oracle of Diana to Brutus, from Tysillio’s Chronicle of the Early Britons
