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The Glastonbury Tor Maze

Geoffrey Ashe

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Though many have suspected that the horizontal ridges around Glastonbury Tor are the remains of an ancient spiral maze, it took a long and detailed study by Geoffrey Ashe to reveal its existence. In the summer of 1979 he concluded that the maze did indeed exist. According to the archaeologist Philip Rahtz, the probable date for it would lie in the second or third millennium BC – the megalithic period.

This booklet, reprinted many times, gives the evidence for a Neolithic spiral maze on Glastonbury Tor which would have been threaded in ancient times. It shows why the Tor ranks alongside Silbury Hill and Avebury Henge as one of the great ritual works of ancient Britain.

Fully detailed directions are given for threading the maze, which takes up to three hours.

Geoffrey Ashe is an internationally renowned scholar of Arthurian history and ancient British mythology. His books range from The Traveller's Guide to Arthurian Britain and The Mythology of the British Isles, to Atlantis, the Dawn behind the Dawn and The Book of Prophecy. He has lived in Glastonbury for over twenty years.