Scutchamer Knob
Scutchamer Knob
Scutchamfly Barrow.
Scotchman's Nob,
Scotchmans Hob
Scratch my Nob.
Scutchamore Knob
Cuckamsley Hill
Cuckshamslow
Cwichelmeshlaew
“Do you believe that there are places that emanate a certain unseen energy, with the power to affect us all good or bad or indifferent?
That a place has a psychogeography? I do.
One of those places is Scutchamer Knob.”
The novel, Scutchamer Knob: A Sixties Mystery, written by Keith David Cooley, is set in a real place in Southern England. This website tells the story of this place and elaborates on the story in the novel.
scutch • \‘scə̀ch\ • verb
To strike with a stick or whip, to slash, or flog.
knob • \‘näb\ • noun
A rounded protuberance.
A rounded usually isolated hill or mountain.
“Scutchamer Knob, this far-famed barrow, the boast and glory of our downs, crowns the summit of a bold and conspicuous hill, rising upwards of 800 feet above the level of the sea. This isolated tumulus is situated near the Ridgeway..” The History & Antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, Berkshire By William Hewett, 1842
Place of Power & Mystery
Scutchamer Knob