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

A Sixties Mystery $4.99