May Day 2007 - The Trendle situated just above the Giant’s outstretched hand is a small square Iron Age earthwork. The purpose of this earthwork is uncertain although it is widely accepted that a temple once stood here. For hundreds of years it was the local custom to erect a maypole within the earthwork about which childless couples would dance to promote fertility. This custom has not survived, but at day break on every May Day the Wessex Morris Men continue to perform their ancient traditional dances on the Trendle and after-wards in the Market Square in the village
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