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The Black Sow Of Rimside Moor

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Rhiannon Feb 7, 2010 17:39:28

Replying to Gavin Douglas

Sorry to drag this thread back up again but I'm not sure this was actually mentioned in it, and I've just found mention of what the sow Is. I spotted it in the Denham Tracts and it rang a bell. It says "Rimside Black Sow is a large sandstone block on Rimside Hill, remarkably like the effigy of the animal it is supposed to represent." So if you spot it you'll know.

Branwen Feb 8, 2010 00:26:29

Replying to Rhiannon

Glad you dragged it up - I've not seen it before. Probably a waste of time saying its called "The Black Sow of Rimside Moor and the Monks of Holy Island" now, for the chap that was looking for the ballad.

Branwen Feb 9, 2010 21:21:45

Replying to Rhiannon

I didn't even realise the Denham Tracts gave a stone in connection to the ballad. The problem with the browser I use to look at books like that is you can type in "Rimside" and hit search, and if the word scanned badly the word recognition won't find it, even if the word is there to see on the picture of the page. Probably my biggest gripe about archive.com