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January 14, 2007
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CYBERSHOT 10/2500 second F/4.5 10 mm 100 Aug 7, 2006, 8:13:05 PM |
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''This is an awesome site, full of raw power. It commands a brilliant view all round, but it is the north which truly draws the eye's attention. Beneath the great drop of this huge outcrop is the haunted and legendary Troller's Ghyll. The scent of as yet undisclosed neolithic sites screams from the moors all round you and there can be little doubt that this was a place of important magick in ancient days.
What seems to be several cup-markings on one of the topmost rocks are, to me, authentic. Harry Speight mentioned them in his 1892 work on the Craven and Northwest Yorkshire Highlands - but there are a number of other rocks in this giant outcrop with 'possibles' on them.
The usually sober pen of Mr Speight thinks this to have been one the high places of druidic worship, named after the legendary Simon Druid. 'It is however, hardly likely,' he wrote, 'that he ever sat there himself, but was probably represented by some druidical soothsayer on whom his mystic gifts descended.'
I've gotta say, I think there's something distinctly true about those lines. Visit this place a few times, alone, during the week, or at night - when there's no tourists about - and tell me it isn't...''
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