I asked from the doorway where I was listening in, ‘So were the ley lines there before the dolmens were constructed? Or did the sacrifices bend them to where the dolmens had been raised?’ Iain looked at me and said, ‘Absolutely no idea. Leyden’s ‘Ballad of Lord Soulis’ describes one such sacrifice at Skelf Hill - it was a horrid affair by any standards!’ Sacrificial sites to what ever bloody gods the culture believed in is entirely possible, given many dolmens have a flat centre stone in them. They’re far too old to have either oral or written histories that could be considered reliable. Fortunately it was something the prim and proper Edwardians disdained, so it ended as fast as it began.’Ī Several Annie asked a question: ‘Do we know the purpose of the dolmens?’ Iain said, ‘No, not really. I think there were Greco-Roman temples built on some of the Estates. So the water wheel would be broken, or the dolmens falling down. He went on to say that ‘The Victorian follies were new constructs, dolmens and water wheels to use two examples, made to look very old.
And these are not Victorian follies built to look like the real things, but are all very real dolmens situated where a number of ley lines come together, forming a nexus of supernatural energy.’
I was passing by the Robert Graves Memorial Reading Room when Iain was lecturing the Several Annies on a subject that was dear to his heart: ‘There are a number of dolmens - ceremonial standing stones - scattered about the Kinrowan Estate.
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