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Thename heliotrope derives from ancient beliefs about the manner in which the mineral reflects light. Such notions are described, for example, by Pliny the Elder (Nat. Hist. 37.165).[1]

Heliotrope was called "stone of Babylon" by Albertus Magnus[2] and he referred to several magical properties, which were attributed to it from Late Antiquity. Pliny the Elder (1st century) mentioned first that the magicians used it as a stone of invisibility.[3] Damigeron (4th century)[4] wrote about its property to make rain, solar eclipse, and its special virtue in divination and preserving health and youth. A Christian tradition states that the red spots come from blood falling upon the stone during the crucifixion of Jesus, as he was stabbed in the side by a Roman soldier.[5] Ancient Roman soldiers believed that the stone had the ability to slow bleeding and wore it for this reason.[5] In India it is held that one can staunch the bleeding by placing upon wounds and injuries after dipping it in cold water, which may have a scientific basis in the fact that iron oxide, contained in the stone, is an effective astringent.[5] The Gnostics wore the stone as an amulet for longevity, for wealth and courage, to strengthen the stomach, and to dispel melancholy.[6] In the Middle Ages it was considered useful for animal husbandry.[6] The ancient Greeks and Romans wore the stone to bring renown and favor, to bring endurance, and as a charm against the bite of venomous creatures. Greek and Roman athletes favored it as talisman for success in their games.[6] In Scotland, the Gaels saw heliotropes as the product of an everlasting battle (seen as the aurora borealis) fought by 'the Nimble Ones,' giant faerie-folk who danced and fought in the night skies, their blood pooling into the red part of the aurora before falling in drops to the ground to form bloodstones.[7]

True Indian bloodstone is primarily found in the Deccan Traps of India, though other rocks with red jasper in them may be found in South Africa, Western Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Italy, Nova Scotia, and numerous locations in the United States.[8] There are also occurrences of bloodstone on the Isle of Rum, in Scotland.[9]

I have about 40 Blood Stone Shards right now. They seem to drop like nobodies business. Do they have a use besides fortifying weapons that I need to save them up for? Or is their drop rate just really high in general?

The further you advance in the game, the more Blood Stone Shards you will come across. The same goes for the Blood Stone of higher tier (Twin Shards and Chunks). If you have an excess of materials, you can use them to upgrade weapons you don't use so often or sell it to the messengers in the Hunter's Dream for 200 blood echoes each.

If you try to upgrade all weapons you come across, you shouldn't have too many left though. I recently had reached my inventory limit for shards and still didn't have enough to upgrade all my weapons. There is no other use for Blood Stone materials that I know of.

Either that or the total opposite extreme is true, and you've bought all of the different weapons, and fortified all of them; after replaying a lot of the levels over and amassing a lot of Blood Stone Shards.

The Luccombe Valley below Salisbury Plain and Bratton Camp, just visible in the upper right. In the foreground are two of the four barrows in the valley, with one of the others being the site of the Bloodstone.

Historians and archaeologists start by sticking to the facts, and try to build a story from there. Experiments and ideas have to be repeated to be of use in their conjecture. Folklore is the opposite. With folklore, something can happen in one place quite unexpected, and never occur anywhere else again.

For example, we know that Romans in Britain frequently buried their dead near roads. We also know that criminals and other outcasts were often buried away from the main settlements to show their place in society. We also know that executions were buried quickly and without ceremony, and are often found face down, with their hands behind their back.

In 1955, a skeleton was found near the Bloodstone, which sits through the woods from Luccombe Spring near Bratton, buried face down, its arms behind its back. It was dated to the Romano-British period, about 100AD.

This shows the difference between archaeology and folklore. archaeology has a few facts to base its story on. Quite often, folklore does too. The difference is with archaeology, we know what those facts are.

There has long been reports of mass graves in the area, found over the centuries, also attributed to the rout following the battle. There were also other bodies nearby where this skeleton was found, but the location was lost since the excavation.

In 2009, an excavation was begun to identify the site where the 1955 skeleton had been found, and if accomplished, search for the other skeletons nearby. They had quite a bit of luck with the former. The debris found in the trenches illustrate the layers of history which sometimes turn into a soup.

They found everything from Romano-British pottery sherds, as well as debris from the Medieval period through the Victorian era. They found a pencil stamped with R&J Reeves & Sons Agricultural & General Engineers. Phone Bratton 236-7 that could have dated from the 1955 excavation.

And so it was that a few years later I found myself standing outside the earthworks of Bratton Camp looking down toward Luccombe Springs and the Bloodstone. Then I fixed my gaze along Salisbury plain, out towards where they believe the Battle of Ethandun was fought. I looked for the Viking horde to come stumbling back through the mist to the safety of the camp.

This strong fortress is situated on a point of land projecting to the north-west, over the rich vale that separates the chalky districts of North and South Wiltshire. On three sides it is naturally fortified by steep and precipitate hills; on the south side where the ground is level, and the approach weak, art has been employed to strengthen it by double ramparts and a large outwork. The entrenchments of this camp, as in all our hill fortresses, humour the form of the hill; on the sides difficult of access one rampart was found sufficient, but where the approach was easier, two were raised. On the eastern side the very perpendicular declivities of the hill rendered any artificial fortifications unnecessary. On the north-east point there is an additional outwork, like a detached camp. The area within the ditches contains above twenty-three acres, the circuit on the top of the outer vallum is one thousand five hundred and forty yards, and the greatest height of the rampart is thirty six feet.

Those of us who grew up in small towns or in the country know the feeling of going into a city, even a small one and being overwhelmed. It had to provoke a similar feeling amongst iron age visitors, coming to trade or celebrate.

The folklore is pretty silent on the site as well. In Ireland, locations like this were thought even into the early twentieth century to be the places where spirits of the dead return. Even the Romans were big believers in ghosts. As such these places were avoided. Perhaps this belief once held true in Britain as well, and people stayed away.

In those days you were as likely to die from a wound received in battle later on, no matter how small as you were to be cleaved outright in the thick of things. Indeed, it was recounted in legends from Bratton that the tracks leading from Bratton Camp were awash in Danish blood.

Nobody really knows when or why a chalk horse was carved onto the side of Bratton Downs, below the iron age Bratton Camp. The current version has evolved over the past two centuries into its rather literal shape today.

We know that the first written accounts of the existence of the Uffington White Horse begin to pop up about the same time, and there are those that believe this was when the idea occurred to the people at Bratton.

Janet and Colin Bord in the book Mysterious Britain recount a legend that the White Horse of Westbury, as it is sometimes thought about the Uffington Horse, might have originally been a dragon, and indeed the earliest white horse at Westbury was thought to have a beak-like nose.

Below the White Horse of Westbury lies Briddle or Bridewell Spring, not far in fact from Luccombe Springs. According to the tale, when the clock in Bratton strikes midnight, the white horse comes down to drink from the spring.

Lest you be tempted to wait outside at midnight on a dark night, watching the white horse and waiting to see it come down the hill, you should keep in mind there is no clock now in the church in Bratton.

These people knew what they saw, believed the stories of the people they trusted, but perhaps most important, believed what they felt. It could be true that they saw the world in a more mystic manner than we do today.

The most widely known legend of this stone comes from the Middle Ages and claims the "Blood Stone" was formed at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ when the blood of his wounds fell onto the dark green earth and turned to stone.

Today, as then, Bloodstone is regarded as a gem of noble sacrifice and can offer courage and solace to all who are called to give of themselves for the good of others. It elicits the highest, most altruistic character of those who wear or carry it.

Its use for healing, and its connection to blood and detoxification of the organs, date back five thousand years to Mesopotamia. In many cultures, Heliotrope was dipped in cold water and placed on the body to aid circulation and transfer the power of the sun to prevent injury or disease, stop the flow of blood, or cure any wound. Its coagulant effect was renowned, and for this reason, ancient warriors often carried Heliotrope as an amulet of protection and courage, as well as its practical applications

Ground, powdered, and mixed with honey, Bloodstone was used to cure tumors, draw out snake venom, and staunch hemorrhages. It was said to clear putrefaction of abscesses in a day, and simply looking at the Bloodstone was believed to prevent eye diseases.

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