 The modern version of the dance involves reindeer antlers, a hobby horse, Maid Marian, and a Fool.There are no recorded references to the horn dance prior to Robert Plot's "Natural History of Staffordshire", written in 1686.However, there is a record of the hobby horse being used in Abbots Bromley as early as 1532, and it is possible that the horn dance component of the custom was also present at that time but not commented upon by the writer.