The Singing Barrows of Weymouth were mentioned in The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain, where they claim that, if you put your ear to the ground on the mounds at Midday, you can hear otherworldly fairy music.

It would seem that the specific barrows they are talking about are the line of six barrows known locally as the Bincombe Bumps.Bincombe, which probably means ‘valley where beans are grown’, lies midway between Dorchester and Weymouth on the South side of the Dorset Ridgeway.

The bumps are Round Barrows or Tumulus a mound of earth and stones piled over a bronze aged grave (another name for a Tumulus is a Kurgan - which we all know is the name of the baddie in Highlander).

There seems to be a number of references to music emanating from these structures, with most of the online stories pulling you back to Bincombe.

Other methods to keep Fairies off your back are:

Turn your clothes inside out. Even a pocket inside out will do –this would appear to confuse fairies, much the same way people seem to be confused by my shaving off my beard.

Wear a holed stone amulet or bells apparently also works for cattle.

Open scissors hung above a baby’s cot: apparently stops the baby been taken and replaced by a changeling. 

Don’t eat any food offered to you. If you do you are obligated to give them something in return, and therefore you are under their power.

Apparently any fairy music you may hear will be fantastic, however will be impossible to remember.

I also came across an Artist called Tessa Farmer who made a brilliant set of sculpture/installations showing what it may look like in side the fairy mounds at Bincombe, it would appear to be a mixture of taxidermy (is this what you call Mounting and Preserving Insects?) she includes my favourite depiction of fairies yet which seem to be made of bits of flying ants reconfigured to look like tiny people with wings.

http://www.tessafarmer.com/new-gallery-4/4rcozjju450uywyo96d1mmji3u58rr

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Ancients of MuMu – Raspberry Ripple

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Juicy malts combine with tart raspberry and sweet vanilla to create this dessert in a glass."

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