Wow, that is incredible!


"or the Irish Annals"

There are many surviving Celtic myths across the isles, although the Irish ones are particularly well represented (and great stories too, I love them). The Welsh have a rich canon of ancient writings such as the Mabinogion (which is 11th Century but which inspired the revival of the bardic tradition. At a local level, many Celtic myths survive and even in England there is a strong thread of Celtic myth and legend associated with local sites; here on the fringe of the Peak District there are many Celtic place names and local stories associated with particular sites, from King Arthur and Merlin to the apotropaic heads still seen in stone walls.

I love the idea that a site might have been continuously occupied for 4,000 years and I hope this find will be on display, I'd love to see it. Someone found a 3,000 year-old bronze palstave axe in our village a few years ago, a few yards from a river that still bears it's Celtic name, which along with the local barrows provide evidence of continuous occupation for millennia that gives me a warm fuzzy glow inside ;-)