There is some uncertainty as to whether earthworks in this parish which are known as Perborough Castle are prehistoric or medieval, but this is irrelevant to the local tradition about them, namely that there is a golden calf buried there. This curious claim has parallels elsewhere, for instance at Goodwood. Sussex, and presumably would have been linked in the popular mind to the story of the Golden Calf idol which the Israelites wickedly worshipped when in the Wilderness (Exodus 32). In the Bible account, this calf is later melted down by the wrathful Moses, and the residue thrown into the water, not buried, so it is strange that English tradition imagines it to hidden in the English landscape. One speculative explanation suggested by the folklorist Theo Brown is that at the Reformation some Catholics buried statues from their churches in the hills, rather than seeing them smashed by Protestants, and that since the latter would scornfully refer to statues as idols, the Catholics would allude to their secret by saying ‘The Golden Calf is buried up there.’