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As some of you know, Sharon and I played around with the Ouija board over the last couple weeks. We came up with two messages. The first message spelled out “H-A-R-R-O”. The second message was “G-R-I-M”. I’ve been going back and forth about the meanings of these messages. My Mum believes that HARRO may be the Scottish word which translates to “a cry of distress”. I found this example online: “Quhat was thair mair but ‘harro, taik and slay’“.

But my Dad has another theory and today he drove Sharon and me to the town “Harrow”. Dad says the combination of “HARRO” & “GRIM” is no coincidence. Today involved a bit of hiking and it was quite chilly. It was fun but I’m not feeling any closer to an answer about Gran and those photos and the Duncans. (insert sigh of frustration here)

The purpose of these earthworks remains a mystery, but as they are too small for military use they may have served to demarcate territory.^[2] Archaeologists agree that Iron age peoples built the earthworks around 300 BC. Today, Grim’s Ditch forms a section of The Ridgeway, a public path part of the National Trail system in the United Kingdom.

The moniker “Grim’s Ditch” originates from the Saxon word for the devil, Grim (or Odin). The Saxons arrived in England well after the Iron age peoples had vanished and the Saxons ascribed the earthworks to their god of the underworld, hence the name Grim’s Ditch.

Below is the gatehouse of Grim’s Dyke Hotel. I only include this because it has an interesting history. (The Hotel originally belonged to GILBERT of Gilbert & Sullivan!) This hotel is also rumoured to be very, very haunted.  Sadly, we only passed by because it was getting late.

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