An air of mystery has always surrounded the crudely carved stoned heads found at prehistoric sites, on churches and on farmhouses all over the British Isles. Long known as 'Celtic heads', John Billingsley explains why this is a mistaken term as he puts them in a context extending from some of the earliest prehistoric remains to the folk traditions of nineteenth-century and even modern Britain. From the skulls in Celtic sacred sites to the stone heads on farmhouses in West Yorkshire, a common theme can be discerned - the widespread human belief in the head as the seat of the soul, the source of our communication with the Otherworld. This belief has been expressed in an artistic and religious motif of 'tete coupee', or severed head. 'A Stony Gaze' presents the history of the severed head tradition from prehistory to today, and demonstrates where such motifs are likely to be found, and how they are likely to appear. The close association between these severed head images and the world of the supernatural and div
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