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    Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of Ashbury in the south-central English county of Oxfordshire. The...
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  • Norfolk Wayland Rural District, merged into Breckland District, Norfolk, UK Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic site in the UK Wayland, Iowa, a village Wayland, Kentucky...
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    Celtic times. To the west of White Horse Hill lies a long barrow called Wayland's Smithy, said to be the home of a smith who was never seen, but who shod the...
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    Yorkshire. English local tradition placed Wayland's forge in a Neolithic long barrow mound known as Wayland's Smithy, close to the Uffington White Horse in...
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    away and produces a musical tone when blown through.[citation needed] Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb 2.4 km (1.5 mi) southwest...
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    the 18th and 19th centuries, Bagsecg was erroneously associated with Wayland's Smithy, a neolithic long barrow in south Oxfordshire. A folk legend arose...
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    and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient...
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    Field", "Alonso", "Isherwood is at Santa Monica", "Ben Dancing at Wayland's Smithy", "Convalescence in Lower Largo", "The Well"), Faber and Faber, 1978...
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    the southern edge of the ditch around the long barrow. The barrow at Wayland's Smithy in Oxfordshire, also in southeast England, saw a cemetery established...
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  • Wayland's Smithy. According to the tale, Flibbertigibbet was apprentice to Wayland the Smith and greatly exasperated his master. Eventually, Wayland threw...
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    stones. Hertfordshire puddingstone Blowing Stone – Kingston Lisle Wayland's Smithy Fyfield Down Coronation Stone (Kingston upon Thames) Ashdown House...
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  • Survived 3,000 Years". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 11 February 2024. "Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and...
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  • Sarunas (2002) European Prehistory: A Survey. Birkhäuser p. 231 "Wayland's Smithy". English Heritage. Retrieved 10 September 2013. Fraser, David (1980)...
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    would compare with another Cotswold-Severn chambered long barrow, Wayland's Smithy, which underwent expansion. Several of the long barrows excavated in...
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    its ritual use of prehistoric sites like Avebury in Wiltshire and Wayland's Smithy in Oxfordshire. Hutton 1991, pp. 16–17. Hutton 1991, p. 16; Ashbee...
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    been a tragic victim of Wayland the smith's revenge on her father, but in later Scandinavian versions, she becomes Wayland's wife and the mother of the...
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    other chambered tombs in Britain, such as West Kennet Long Barrow and Wayland's Smithy. It is also possible that there was a portal stone atop the chamber...
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    Sisters, Somerset, c.1780 Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire, planted with beech and fir trees in c.1810 and for a time known as "Wayland's Folly" Thurnam, John...
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    of fine steel. The place where a blacksmith works is variously called a smithy, a forge, or a blacksmith's shop. While there are many professions who work...
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  • also investigated sites at Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, and Wayland's Smithy and was a friend and collaborator of Peggy Piggott, Stuart Piggott...
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  • fly", inclusive of Óðinn's ability to transform into bird shape, and Wayland's flying contraption. This wider categorization may be necessary, since...
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    also taken place at Early Neolithic chambered long barrows such as Wayland's Smithy in Oxfordshire, and the Coldrum Long Barrow in Kent. In Ireland, Druids...
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  • Yorkshire Uley Long Barrow (aka Hetty Pegler's Tump), Gloucestershire Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire White Barrow, Wiltshire...
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    along the Berkshire Downs. Prehistoric sites in the Downs include Wayland's Smithy (Neolithic), numerous tumuli (Neolithic or Bronze Age), Uffington White...
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  • with Richard Atkinson) included Cairnpapple Hill in West Lothian; Wayland's Smithy in Oxfordshire; and West Kennet Long Barrow and Stonehenge in Wiltshire...
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    The exposed stone burial chambers of Wayland's Smithy long barrow, Oxfordshire, U.K....
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    Stoney Littleton Long Barrow St Lythans Tinkinswood Uley Long Barrow Wayland's Smithy West Kennet Long Barrow Whispering Knights Dartmoor Barrows: Spinsters'...
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    England are the megalithic tombs of the Neolithic, such as those at Wayland's Smithy and the West Kennet Long Barrow. These cromlechi are common over much...
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    Burford (no website) Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle and Wayland's Smithy burial chamber in the White Horse Hills Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage...
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  • Tinkinswood, Neolithic dolmen. Trethevy Quoit, Neolithic burial chamber. Wayland's Smithy, Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb. West Kennet Long Barrow, Neolithic...
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