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=== Sources ===
=== Sources ===
* {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. III, p. 5, referring to Greenwood's 1771 Map of Yorkshire.
* {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. III, p. 5, referring to Greenwood's 1771 Map of Yorkshire.
=== Studies ===
* {{:Crump, W B 1951a}}.
* {{:Hepworth, David 2005a}}.
* {{:Hepworth, David 2005b}}.
* {{:Phillips, George Searle 1848a}}, pp. 29, 46.
* {{:Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a}}, pp. 198-205.


=== Maps ===
=== Maps ===
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* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100948190#zoom=6&lat=5248&lon=7370&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXLVI.NE (1947, surveyed 1938) (at NLS).]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100948190#zoom=6&lat=5248&lon=7370&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXLVI.NE (1947, surveyed 1938) (at NLS).]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100948187#zoom=6&lat=5288&lon=7206&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXLVI.NE (1949, surveyed 1948) (at NLS).]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100948187#zoom=6&lat=5288&lon=7206&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXLVI.NE (1949, surveyed 1948) (at NLS).]
=== Discussion ===
* {{:Crump, W B 1951a}}.
* {{:Hepworth, David 2005a}}.
* {{:Hepworth, David 2005b}}.
* {{:Phillips, George Searle 1848a}}, pp. 29, 46.
* {{:Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a}}, pp. 198-205.


=== Drawings ===
=== Drawings ===
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=== Background ===
=== Background ===
* {{:Brentnall, Margaret 1963a}}, see p. 58
* {{:Stukeley, William 1882a}}, vol. III, p. 500 (item No. 130).
* {{:Stukeley, William 1882a}}, vol. III, p. 500 (item No. 130).



Revision as of 12:14, 17 February 2018

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Approximate location of Robin Hood's Grave.
Nathaniel Johnston's drawing of Robin Hood's grave

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-06. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-17.

Situated in a wooded spot within Kirklees Park, c. 650 m. SW of Kirklees Priory gatehouse, in the grounds of the long gone Kirklees Priory, this is one of the most well known and important localities connected with Robin Hood. As noted under Kirklees Priory, traditions connecting Robin Hood with the priory go back at least to the late 15th century. It is possible that there was originally at Kirklees a grave in which a person named Robert Hood (or similar) was buried. If this was the case, the belief that this was the grave of the famous outlaw may have originated as an etiological myth, a myth of origins[1]. It does not seem anybody was ever buried under the existing monument, but it is likely the original grave was located elsewhere within the priory grounds.

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Drawings

  • Nathaniel Johnston's famous drawing of the slab formerly at Robin Hood's Grave is reproduced in most illustrated monographs on the Robin Hood tradition. The original is found in volume 16 of William Stukeley's MS Diary, among his papers in the Bodleian Library.[2]

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