by Marilyn Head
by Philip Carr-Gomm
Personally I have never felt affronted by the Cerne Giant and have no time at all for the simpering old ladies who cluck-cluck every time they pass it. The only residents I sympathize with are the elderly males or tired Dorchester business men who are constantly reminded by their wives and mistresses en passant of how far short they fall of the splendid male vigour displayed before them.
The Hon. Ophelia Pashley-Cumming
by Philip Carr-Gomm
There is on the confines of western Britain a certain royal island, called in the ancient speech Glastonia, marked out by broad boundaries, girt round with waters rich in fish and with still-flowing rivers, fitted for many uses of human indigence, and dedicated to the most sacred of deities.
St Augustine of Canterbury, 6th cent AD
by Philip Carr-Gomm
by Philip Carr-Gomm
We can never be born enough. We are human beings for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery, the mystery of growing: the mystery which happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves.
e.e.cummings
by Philip Carr-Gomm
Built by the strong Dagda, it was a marvel, a court, a wonder hill.
The Book of Ballymote
By R. H.
by Ruth Ann Oskolkoff
A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of California State University Dominguez Hills In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts in Humanities Fall 2008
by Philip Carr-Gomm
The Salisbury Plain Training Area has, even for those of us living in Wiltshire, a little of the mystique that the Dark Continent once had for the Victorians: largely unknown, dangerous, but full of interest and known to have concealed within it ancient ruins and traces of lost civilisations.
Ros Cleal, The National Trust
by Joan Letchford, daughter of George William Smith, Chosen Chief of the Ancient Druid Order 1946-54
