What is the Mound’s significance in legend and history?
The Bride Stone tells of the existence of Bride’s Well, where the famous and evocative Glastonbury Blue Bowl was placed by Dr Goodchild. This artefact is now in the guardianship of the Chalice Well Trust and Dr Goodchild’s ‘Beckery Salmon’. The Bride stone is now at the foot of the bank of the River Brue. For the full story of the Blue Bowl and the Beckery Salmon, please refer to Patrick Benham’s excellent book ‘The Avalonians’ “One of the best known shrines to Bride in the West Country was that of the Beckery near Glastonbury. The land round there is still called Brigit’s Isle or Little Ireland – Beg Eri.” Both William of Malmesbury, c. 1135, and John of Glastonbury, c.1400, wrote of the visit of St.Bride to Glastonbury in 488 AD where she spent time at the Beckery. There was an oratory dedicated to Mary Magdalene there. It was common for Celtic-Christian missionaries to visit Glastonbury as allegedly St. Dunstan was taught by Irish scholars. Relics left by St. Bride were reportedly o
