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Ceri
Houlbrook

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Houlbrook, Ceri, “Saints, poets, and rubber ducks: crafting the sacred at St Nectan’s Glen”, Folklore: The Journal of the Folklore Society 127:3 (September, 2016): 344–361.  
abstract:
This article focuses on St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall, where layers of ritual deposition imply a long history of spiritual significance—an implication that is debunked by a diachronic examination of the site, which reveals a relatively recent, and conscious, crafting of the sacred.
abstract:
This article focuses on St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall, where layers of ritual deposition imply a long history of spiritual significance—an implication that is debunked by a diachronic examination of the site, which reveals a relatively recent, and conscious, crafting of the sacred.