Wild Goose Chase: in Search of the Tocan Stanæ (“Tocca’s Stone”) and Joining Up Dots on a Map

Not having learnt my lesson from previous failed searches for named Anglo-Saxon stones, I go out in search of the Tocan Stanæ (“Tocca’s stone”). Knowing Tockenham in Wiltshire is somehow related to it I start there with the church and its remarkable Genius Loci statue in the wall of the church, an ancient Roman statue that once belonged in the giant Roman villa nearby.

I then start getting overenthusiastic joining dots on a map: it is lucky I don’t have an academic reputation to lose!

These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.

But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.

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