Another feature of Celtic occupation in the Forest is the existence of the ‘Hollow Ways’, tracks in the escarpment worn by the passage of traffic up and down an unmetalled path which in conjunction with the weather erodes it until it wears down to the rocky subsoil. Some of these hollow ways indeed may be much older than Celtic days, and among the best examples is the one at Stroat which continues a track from an ancient river crossing, up the escarpment, across Tidenham Chase and down to the Wye through Madgetts. Here, a boundary of upright stones lines the sunken banks, while a similar reinforcement lines part of a hollow way from St. Briavels to Bigsweir.
Forest Story by R. J. Mansfield (published in 1964 by the author)
Boz's Gaff 