The Monk's Story reveals the spellbinding truth about our ancestors. Hill forts; earthworks; a time-warping discovery: what are the secrets of Iron-Age Britain?
The ancient hill fort, its impressive earthworks buried deep in the forest atop the Tor of Defnas Burh, is a mystery. No-one knows who built it - or why. Most of the villagers are content not to know. Some prefer not to know.
There are no written records: there is no trace of memory, and no folklore. Nothing tangible remains ... until the discovery of The Brooch, that is.
For Brother Gabriel, a Cistercian monk escaping the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, this discovery - his discovery - is the link between his monastic life and that of Cassivelanus, an Iron-Age druid of the Defnas tribe in the first century BC.
This is a story of mystery and revelation; of friendships forged, broken and re-forged across time; of soaring triumph and great tragedy.
It is the story of the temporality of human life itself.