tjj wrote: Great post, Spencer ... a breath of fresh air. Have just been looking at some images online - apparently wild orchids in early summer too. And fabulous views. Like Moss said, hillforts are peaceful and refreshing places to take yourself off to from the daily noise of traffic etc, especially in the heavily populated south of England. I live in Wiltshire, not too far away - Eggardon Hill now added my list of 'places to explore very soon'.
Kind of ironic that a type of site long associated with defence and status-declaiming can now be so peaceful and refreshing (they certainly are though). But then those traditional one-dimensional ideas about "forts" are fading as well, and they are being reclaimed as places of settlement and community, multi-purpose and multi-period, although some were clearly still just last-ditch places of refuge and defence (pun intended).
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