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	Wayland's Smithy
		Wayland's Smithy is one of the most impressive and atmospheric Neolithic burial chambers in Britain.
		Wayland is the same as Volundr or Volund, who is described in Norse myth, recorded from Iceland in the form of a poem.
		Wayland is enraged, and picks up one of the giant sarcen stones and throws it at his apprentice pinning him by the heel.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /majorsites/waylands_smithy.html (581 words)

	Waylands Smithy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Waylands Smithy and the Legend of Wayland the Smith
		The legend of Wayland the Smith relates how he was captured and lamed by King Nidudr and made to work for him.
		Wayland however exacted a gruesome revenge by murdering the King's 2 sons and making cups from their skulls.
	www.tradamis.co.uk /su2885.htm (106 words)

	EARTH MYSTERIES: Wayland's Smithy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wayland's Smithy is a neolithic long barrow located just off the the Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs about a half mile from Uffington Castle (an Iron Age hill fort) and the Uffington White Horse.
		It was built between 3,700 and 3, 400 B.C.E. The barrow is first mentioned by name in a charter in 955 C.E. It was sketched by John Aubry around 1670.
		Wayland's Smithy is one of many prehistoric sites associated with Wayland, the Norse god of flsmithing.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /earthmysteries/EMWayland.html (404 words)

	Oxfordshire mysteries
		Waylands Smithy is a Neolithic burial chamber; archaeologists have identified two distinct phases of development.
		According to folklore anybody who has a horse to be shod should leave it at the mound and place a coin on a nearby stone, new shoes will be fitted to the horse by Wayland.
		Wayland enraged picked up one of the giant sarcen stones and threw it at his apprentice pinning him by the heel.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/oxfordshire/oxfordshire2.html (305 words)

	The history of Waylands Smithy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wayland was the flsmith to the Saxon gods.
		Wayland's Smithy is the name given to an ancient long barrow burial site (constructed from about 3700BC onwards) on the Berkshire Downs in Southern England, just along the Ridgeway path from the chalk carved White Horse of Uffington.
		The Smithy is also my personal starting-point for travels into other realities and my anchor to this world.
	www.waylandsmithy.com /history.htm (393 words)

	Stones of England - Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow
		Wayland's Smithy, beautifully situated in a clump of beech trees, is one of the finest chambered long barrows in Britain and lies a short hike away -along the Ridgeway- from Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle.
		Wayland's Smithy got its name some four thousand years later its construction, when Saxon settlers came across the tomb.
		Not knowing who had built it, they imagined it was the work of one of their gods, Wayland the Smith.
	www.stonepages.com /england/waylandssmithy.html (301 words)

	Wayland the Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wayland (or Weyland/Volundr/Volund/Vulcan) the Smith was the son of the sea giant Wate and the sea nymph Wac-hilt.
		Eventually Wayland took his revenge by luring the king's two sons to his smithy, where he killed them and turned their skulls into drinking goblets, which he gave to the king.
		Then Wayland him what the goblets and jewels really were, and what had happened to his daughter, then flew off.
	www.waylands.net /public/smithy/legends.htm (508 words)

	Wayland's Smithy - Long Barrow - Ancient Sites Directory
		Wayland's Smithy is situated on the Ridgeway not far from the Uffington White Horse.
		Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow dating back around 5500 years.
		Wayland's Smithy is set in a wonderfully peaceful grove of beech trees, a good place to be on a fine summer day (or for that matter on a freezing cold, snow laden misty day as shown in the photo above).
	www.henge.org.uk /oxfordshire/wayland.html (508 words)

	Adrian the Ageing Hippy's Photos of Wayland's Smithy and White Horse Hill
		Follow signposts from Wantage for Uffington White Horse, then continue to Wayland's Smithy from the car park off the B4507 at the foot of Whitehorse Hill, (on foot) south along the lane and then west along the Ridgeway.
		This contained a wooden "mortuary house", or burial chamber, which had collapsed, with the remains of fourteen skeletons lying in a confused mass.
		A local legend says the barrow is haunted by an invisible flsmith who will shoe a horse for a traveller, provided that a coin is left on a stone and that the traveller absents himself while the work is in progress.
	www.adrian.smith.clara.net /waylands.html (536 words)

	Faringdon Tourism & Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wayland, the smith, was a god in Saxon folk lore.
		He excelled at metal craft and the Saxon poets claimed that Gods and Kings were proud to possess his work.
		Wayland was captured by Niduth, a Swedish King, and imprisoned in a deep cave.
	www.faringdon.org /ttwaylands.htm (244 words)

	Wayland's Smithy (Long Barrow) \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Wayland's Smithy (Long Barrow)
		Waylands Smithy is of course not really a Smithy but a long barrow and is believed to date from around 3400BCE.
		Wayland's Smithy was a very welcome goal after such an enjoyable trudge.
		Wayland pursues his love with zeal and this causes him to be captured and enslaved.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /site/68 (4019 words)

	Weird Wiltshire - Stone formations - Waylands Smithy
		But Wayland's Smithy is situated just outside Wiltshire in Oxfordshire, on the Ridgeway near the Uffington White Horse.
		A smaller version of West Kennet Long Barrow, Waylands Smithy is a neolithic long barrow dating back about 5500 years - making it at least 1000 years older than the oldest parts of Stonehenge.
		Situated amid a sheltering grove of beech trees, four of the original six sarsen stones mark the entrance to the burial chambers.
	www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk /stones/wayland.html (316 words)

	Groundspeak Travel Bug Details
		I decided to pick this up and take it along to Waylands Smithy (which is only a couple of miles away) in the middle of the night.
		Waylands Smithy and the White horse caches are two that are on my to do list, so I will see what I can do
		Took Pong around to the diffent wayland caches, next stop 5.0, then in order 2.0-4.0-3.0-and 8.0 He is in 8.0 right now but I never wrote his tag number down so I can't put in for the miles.
	www.geocaching.com /track/details.aspx?ID=26570 (2284 words)

	Earthfiles.com
		The Waylands Smithy long barrow lies in a plantation of trees on the famous Ridgeway, not far from the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle.
		Now the Wayland's Smithy 2005 formation also chose as its basic time unit, "one Mayan century" or 52 years, extending from late 1960 to late 2012.
		I think this crop formation at Waylands Smithy gives two different calendar dates in terms of a "current Mayan century", which began in 1960 and will end in 2012, after 52 years.
	www.earthfiles.com /news/news.cfm?ID=974&amp (2706 words)

	Best Western Sudbury House Hotel
		The story tells how Wayland, the son of a giant, was taught magical smithing skills by trolls.
		When Niduth's two sons came to Wayland requesting swords he took his revenge, murdering them.
		Later the kings daugther came to Wayland with a ring to be mended, Wayland ravished her, then made his escape on fantastic metal wings which he had forged.
	www.bw-sudburyhouse.co.uk /TheRidgewayWaylandsSmithy.asp (301 words)

	Uffington White Horse, Waylands Smithy & the Ridgeway
		Uffington White Horse, Waylands Smithy & the Ridgeway
		About 40 miles of the Ridgeway remains today connecting at Streatley with another famous road, the Icknield Way, which takes one all the way out to the Wash on the east coast.
		The name of the tomb comes from the smith to the Saxon gods Wayland who is said to reside here.
	freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/uffingto.htm (983 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Wayland's Smithy [Waylands Smithy] Long Barrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The chamber of Wayland's Smithy on Summer Solstice Eve, 2005.
		Waylands Smithy is a lovely little site, although i was a bit dissappointed it only had two chambers.
		Wayland's Smithy got its name some four thousand years later, when Saxon settlers came across the tomb.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=174 (1128 words)

	Smithy ,Smithy lathe ,Smithy.com ,Smithy tools ,Smithy lathes ,Smithys wine bar ,Smithy mill ,Smithyahoo.com , , (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Village Smithy Opals, Inc. provides our customers with high quality Australian Opal, opal cutting tips and techniques, one of the largest selection of opals...
		Fractal Tune Smithy- generate tunes as intricate as snowflakes from a musical seed,or play in any tuning, historical, ethnic or modern.
		MIB Smithy is a multi-platform visual environment for designing, editing and compiling SNMP MIB and COPS PIB modules according to the SMIv1 and SMIv2...
	www.ieupdate.info /Resource_Pages/smithy.htm (349 words)

	D'Arcy Dalton Way - Paths Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		Created to mark the Oxford Fieldpath Society's Diamond Jubilee in 1986 to connect Oxforshire's major long distance paths with the Wessex Downs, and named after a notable defender of the county's path network.
		Bus services to Wormleighton are infrequent: the easiest option is to go to Banbury, with frequent trains and buses, and walk to Wormleighton along the Oxford Canal towpath (14.5km/9 miles).
		Waylands Smithy is a short walk from Ashbury which has regular buses to Swindon, (though there may be no Sunday service in the winter) for regular trains to London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Swansea.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/darcydalton.html (223 words)

	Tara's Trails - Short walks with your dog - Asbury Ridgeway and Wayland's Smithy
		A simple walk that takes in the historic Wayland's Smithy and along a stretch of The Ridge Way.
		At the Ridge Way turn right to visit the Wayland's Smithy monument which is about 5 minutes up the track on left
		After visting Wayland's Smithy turn right coming out of the gate and stay on the Ridge Way which will take you back to the car park
	www.tarastrails.co.uk /ashbury.htm (410 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Inside the grove, the light is a little dimmer, and in front of us lies a low hump of long barrow; facing us, its great fl mouth under a lintel of grey stone.
		This is Wayland's Smithy - the forge of Wotan/Odin, the wise one-eyed god.
		A being of huge power in Norse mythology, he had shrunk in stature by the middle ages, when local superstition asserted that he would shoe any horse left tied near his Smithy with a shilling laid on the stones.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ANDREAK/uff-ton.htm (425 words)

	Waylands Smithy Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I founded Wayland's Smithy as a service to complementary practitioners and therapists, who often prefer to distance themselves from the unhealthy vibes of new technology, but who may need to use marketing tools or the Internet to reach a wider client base.
		If you have a small-to-medium business and you are looking to produce publicity material, keep up with your paperwork, write a book or training manual or establish a web presence, but don't wish to involve yourself with the nuts and bolts of:
		To read about the history of the Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow in Wiltshire which gave us our name, click here.
	www.waylandsmithy.com (230 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Ridgeway [The Ridgeway] Ancient Trackway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A number of ancient monuments lie along its course, including the long barrow of Wayland's Smithy, The Uffington Castle Hillfort and the Uffington White Horse.
		The very hot weather prior to this had made the pathway very dry, but near to Waylands Smithy, where presumably more cars use it, the track was extremely rutted.
		The Ridgeway near to Waylands Smithy after sunset, February 2005, showing just what a terrible state it has been turned into.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=138&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (816 words)

	smithy - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Smithy : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Words similar to smithy: forge, smithies, artisan, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=smithy&ls=a (178 words)

	White Horse Of Uffington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Uffington White Horse, Waylands Smithy and the Ridgeway
		Uffington is a marvellous sacred area situated in the chalk hills of...
		The white horse at Uffington dates to around 1000BC and sits amongst lofty company, close to Uffington Castle Iron Age Hill Fort and also to Waylands Smithy, a Bronze Age passage grave.
	www.e-horse-for-sale.info /80/white-horse-of-uffington.html (523 words)

	Andy's Rant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Well, there's the usual collection of search engines, a few dozen people searching for i-cybie mods or indoor fireworks, because I rank high on google for those.
		Things like Waylands Smithy I get less hits for, because my page isn't right at the top of the google answers...
		Out of 2400 hits in the last fortnight, there were 200 unique visitors, and I can account for a lot of those.
	www.andygotbored.org.uk /blog/2003_02_09_archive (213 words)

	Erowid Experience Vaults: nn-DMT - Waylands Smithy
		Apart from a brief encounter with approximately 3mg earlier in the week this is my first real try with this legendary substance.
		I prepared a makeshift pipe with 20mg of this sticky orange waxy substance and sat down under a beautiful old beech tree situated just to the left of the front elevation of Waylands Smithy and began to prepare myself in quiet reflection.
		When I felt ready I brought the pipe to my lips and applied the flame.
	www.erowid.org /experiences/exp.php?ID=36375 (469 words)

	Dragon Hill, Uffington - Wikimedia Commons
		The hill is just next to the White Horse Hill and is part of the World Heritage Site.
		Next to the White Horse Hill is Waylands Smithy, an old tomb.
		This page was last modified 09:14, 14 May 2005.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Dragon_Hill (61 words)

	Smithy
		As you wander through my house you may discover the library and study are still under construction!
		The courtyard houses my wolf, Aifas' kennel and don't be confused because my place looks like Waylands' Smithy.
		I would like to thank the druidess Shea Evavisci through her Mystick Art for providing my avatar and Flidais for Aifas' avatars.
	www.ancientworlds.net /member/Brigantes/Vaugn (130 words)

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		Although don't be put off as there are still plenty of other monuments to see here and the view across the Vale of the White Horse can be breathtaking.
		of Uffington Castle above the figure and Waylands Smithy
		There is ample parking in the car park nearby, but it can get busy on good days in the summer.
	members.lycos.co.uk /oldalbion/hillfig/uffington.html (871 words)

	smithy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Location: take the B4507 from Compton Beauchamp to Kingston Lisle,at the L turn for Woolstone,turn R go up the hill to the Ridgeway.Park and go R along the Ridgeway,the Smithy is about 600yds on your R. (Or if you`re feeling energetic carry on along the B4507 following signs for the
		White Horse,Uffington,park in the car park there and follow the signs for the Smithy,it will take you on a delightful two-and-a-half mile jaunt that`s well worth the effort!)
		A very peaceful and most beautifully sited barrow,and because of its out of the way location,one that is unlikely to be ravaged by hordes of tourists!
	www.freewebs.com /hairyvike/sites/smithy.htm (170 words)

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