Persephone's Rest

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This area's full of little known history; standing stones and silver mines, that weird sense of more lying beneath your feet. We need a thorough Time Team investigation of the place, only problem being where to start. We went up to the Knock and found this:





Neither are old; the stone circle was put in place as a surprise birthday present from the farmer's son to his dad back in the 90s (how do you build a 'surprise' stone circle?) and the willow bothy was built by a local gentleman who described it thus:

We seen the statue of Persephone, standing in the trees, she was as important to us as she was to the locals. We learned all about her, mainly that she was the Goddess of spring and its abundance, she was also the Goddess of gardening and farming. Where she walked life blossomed. So with this in mind I first sought Granny Knocks blessing, then started harvesting willow from Witch Craig, I then prepared the site and set to work building my folly. [...] it took around a mile and three quarters of willow to make and it’s called Persephone’s rest, where she can reside till winter, it is dedicated to all the local gardeners and farmers,who aid her in her work. Please feel free to visit it, in it you will find a bench and a simple egg shaped alter. If you want fatter lambs and calfs, if you want your roses looking better, your barley to ripen or bigger crops from your wee garden, then make an offering to Persephone and she’ll do her bit........ I believe she preferred offerings of beer and cake

Little bit of love in the land, son for father, gardener for goddess. I like it.