Literature The Shadow of the Ragged Stone Hill is a 19th-century novel by Charles F. Grindrod concerning a monk of
Little Malvern Priory. He has been made a monk against his will, and his main object in life is to avenge his father's murder of his mother, a deed incited by false accusations made against his mother by a "wicked knight". The monk disguises himself in borrowed armour, attends a tournament and there kills the knight. Later, he breaks his vow of
chastity by marrying a woman who he has rescued from the advances of a "lascivious knight", and is then falsely accused of killing her father in a
duel. He is condemned to crawl to the summit of Ragged Stone Hill once a day as punishment. When the monk can no longer bear the punishment he curses the hill and anyone on whom the shadow of the hill should fall.
The Ragged Stone is a poem by
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, a founder of the
Dymock Poets.
Music 'Raggedstone Hill' is the name of a song by the band
Dodgy, written and recorded in the Malverns during 2011. ==References==