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Oliver's Castle is (according to Miller and Broadhurst's
book 'The Sun and the Serpent') is one of those spots where the
country-traversing Michael and Mary Leys cross each other. It's also a focus UFOs and crop circles - a quick google
will transport you into the convoluted discussions about a video that was
allegedly shot there in 1996, showing supposed balls of light flying about a
crop circle.
Headless Ghost.--On Roundway Down a
headless ghost is said to walk. Some years ago a shepherd declared that
he met it, that it walked some distance by his side, and then vanished.
The gentleman to whom he told the story asked why he did not speak to
the ghost. "I was afraid," he replied, "for if I hadn't spoken proper to
him he'd a tore 'un to pieces." A barrow is near the place, which was
excavated some time ago, when a skeleton (not headless) was found. Since
the barrow was opened the ghost has ceased to walk.
The camp was more anciently called
Roundway or Rundaway Castle, and its present name of Oliver's
Camp or Castle seems to have arisen out of a popular tradition
that Oliver Cromwell occupied, if he did not actually build, the
camp. The only foundation in fact for this tradition is that the
battle of Roundway in 1643 was fought on the neighbouring Downs,
when some of the combatants may have been posted close to, if
not actually within, the boundary of the camp. Cromwell himself
was not present on the occasion, but the fact that Cromwellian
troops fought on the adjacent Downs was quite enough to give
rise in the course of time to the popular association of the
camp with the name of the great man himself. Cromwell has always
loomed large in the imagination of the people, and it has been
said that he has achieved an unenviable notoriety only second to
the Devil himself.
Best wishes!
Steve & Karen
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