DID CELTS FIND A DRAGON (DINOSAUR) IN A STONE QUARRY AT STONESFIELD, ENGLAND?
In 1824 Reverend William Buckland, reader in geology at Oxford reports on large bones found in the quarry and names it “megalosaurus”, or “big lizard”. Not far away, an ancient legend has it that a “dragon” had been slain on a nearby hilltop over two thousand years earlier. It was artfully commemorated, “cut into” the hillside as a horselike beast over 300 feet in length 1000 yrs. ago! Stonesfield was named Stunsfeld (meaning “fools field”) most likely by the Romans. This was because of the stony, unproductive nature of the soil in the area. Adjacent to the large white animal carved into the side of the hill, a round, knob hill has been flattened where exposed chalk, a depleted paleosol does not grow grass. Legend holds that this is where the dragon’s head was cut off, the dragon blood spilled out as a result, poisoning the soil forever. Bare spot near the bones, no skull, only limbs, vertebra, ribs, feet. For ancient man it added up to a mystery. Dinosaur skulls are fragile. Their fos
