Wonwell Beach Gothvos Laura Denning

On May 18th I participated in a walk through the Somerset Levels led by Laura Denning in pursuit of Hydroethnic rivulets and pools , sweet rack wooden roads, the remnants of islands in the levels unlike the islands at the other end of the Dumnonian peninsular awash in the Atlantic, these isles were met by the Severn, and for the very first time a definite site for a Greenstone Axehead courtesy of Fay Stevens, a site I can return to and delve.

This is where a Greenstone Axe was recovered, (not on May 18th) presaging the cult of relics it was put here and now that its been retrieved I must surely be able to view it and find out a little more information about the space between the Axehead, its place of origin and its place of committal, certain norms are that the presence of water seems to prevail, on an island thats not difficult to imagine, even on an erratic island, it probably looked a bit like this one:

I expect it looked nicer as most are superbly polished after many hundreds of hours polishing by hand, possibly a ritual in itself consisting of story telling and speculation.

I asked Laura if she would place a Gothvos stone as a scenographic response, she accepted a Greenstone axe shaped pebble that I had taken from the Gwavas Lake shores of Newlyn and Wherrytown with the word Gothvos written on it, Laura placed her stone on Wonwell Beach.

Wonwell Gothvos among the Kelp

Mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmology The River Erme is a very significant part of the Gothvos trail,  42 tin ingots were found in the mouth of the estuary on the north side of the West Mary Reef. These date from between 500 BC and 600 AD. Tin mining was in existence on Dartmoor from an early date. Dartmoor tin-mining would have been a major part of the Dumnonian economy throughout its history and into Devons history, nearby Mothecome belies its former celtic pronunciation as Muddicome.The Hydroethnicity drifts on...