Fireside Chat with Eimear and Jenny

Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) Chosen Chief Eimear Burke chatted to Jenny on Thursday 8th September about subjects including Stanwick, Scotch Corner and Queen Cartimandua, is druidry a religion?, religious education, death rituals, needle-felted Brighid / Brigantia and a song! They talked for over two hours and it was streamed live on Facebook…

The Guardian discovers Stanwick Fortifications!

It was great to see the Guardian article from yesterday about our local ancient site at Stanwick. It was a bit disappointing that the journalist, Kevin Rushby, didn’t do much research apart from mis-reading the Wikipedia article that I wrote a few years ago. The famous archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler (almost certainly incorrectly) concluded the…