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We seem to be getting lots of answers about Longinius's spear but not much about the Grail ... Apart from the Glastonbury tradition, there is a tradition of a wooden cup at the Welsh Cistercian abbey of Strata Florida, near Tregaron, which was said to be the Grail and which attracted large numbers of pilgrims. On the face of it, a wooden cup is pehaps a more likely candidate than the usual elaborate metal goblet. Richard Colyer in Roads and trackways of Wales (Moorland Press, 1984) has a lot of detail about pilgrimage routes around Strata Florida, though less on the relic itself. (I've changed my address since last summer - I'm now at UWCN Caerleon rather than Cardiff. I was off list for a long time last summer walking some of these pilgrimage routes: the Cistercian Way project is more or less on hold at the moment while I recover from a broken leg but we still have hopes of lottery funding and will be back to fieldwork by the summer.) Maddy Gray %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%