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Re: Spellings
Jan 09, 2004, 19:59
Goatscrag could relate to wild goats but it may also be a corruption of another meaning just as many words are corrupted from their original form to something that sounds familiar but means something completely different e.g There are the Goat stones at Bellingham, the Mighty Burl says that the name may be a corruption of gyet-stanes or 'wayside stones'.
That said 'Ad Gefrin' which is just over the Milfield Plain translates as 'of the wild goats'.
Goatscrag contains burials, flints & Cup and Ring carvings leading Stan the Man to speculate that the carvings may be contemporary with the C&R's.
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