There is a certain amount of confusion in Somerset between the Danes, whose incursions are still remembered, and the fairies. The name 'Danes' may be connected, in this Celtic pocket of England, with the Daoine Sidhe, the children of Dana. The Leicestershire Dane Hills may have the same origin. Ruth Tongue in County Folk-Lore (Vol.VIII, p.111) quotes an informant at Ashridge in 1907 who was convinced that the traditional buried treasure on Dolbury Camp was put there by the Fairies, not by the Danes.

There be a bit of verse as do go

If Dolbury digged were

Of gold should be the share,

but nobody hasn't found the treasure yet. And for why? Well, to start up with it don't belong to they, and so they won't never meet up with it. 'Twill go on sinking down below never mind how deep they do dig. I tell 'ee 'tis the gold of they Redshanks as used to be seed on Dolbury top. To be sure there's clever, book-read gentlemen as tell as they was Danes, and another say 'twere all on account of their bare legs being red with the wind, but don't mind they.

My granny she did tell they was fairies, ah, and all dressed in red, and if so the treasure med be theirs. If they was Danes how do 'ee explain all they little clay pipes as 'ee can find on Dolbury Camp. They did call 'em 'fairy pipes', old miners did. An' if there be fairy pipes then there was fairies, and nobody need doubt they was the Redshanks.