The Celts, or at least their keepers of wisdom, the Druids, may have held keys to knowledge which could benefit us today. But as they never left anything in writing, we shall never know what they knew. Living in this land of theirs we can only learn again, our way. In AD 937 the fields surrounding the site witnessed the slaughter of the last of the Cornish Celts led by Howel in their final battle against King Athelstan and his invading Saxon army. The fogou is known as the 'Boleigh fogou', and Boleigh' means 'place of slaughter'.
Legend has it that after the battle the stream by the fort ran red with blood.
Jo May. Gothic Image Publications.