The Keepers of the Wall
‘I SEE THAT someone has discovered a number of skeletons beneath the foundations of a wall and has brought forward the old idea that they were put there so that their ghosts could hold up the wall.’
‘And why not?’ interposed Henderson. ‘It was long thought that burying a body under a wall would help to hold the wall secure.’
‘Didn’t Gordon Childe find something like that at Skara Brae?’ queried Drummond.