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| Walked up the hill after visiting Wayland's Smithy. Karen decided to give it a miss and went back to the car with Dafydd as it was so hot. It took a lot longer to walk up the hill than I had expected but once on top the view was well worth it. The defence ditches are still well defined and there were sooo many people about enjoying the summer sunshine. It was nice to view the horse from above! |
Posted by CARL 24th May 2010ce |
| Uffington Castle is an amazing place to watch the sun set |
Posted by Circlemaster24th April 2010ce |
| We visited the castle yesterday Saturday 30th October 2004. The landscape here is so dramatic and exciting to view. The views are truly inspirational from any point you choose on top of the castle. Over Dragon Hill and way into the distance. As the afternoon went on the sun began to lower in the sky and the silhouettes of people walking over the other side with a full red sun setting behind them was a beautiful sight. |
Posted by texlahoma31st October 2004ce Edited 1st November 2004ce |
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Uffington Castle - 8.2.2004 When I had visited once before I couldn't appreciate its size and views because I could hardly see in front of my face with thick mist. Today I could, and walked around, up and over part of it. What a great place to live this would have been. Howling gale, or no howling gale, this was still great. No-one seems to have done the obvious yet....(car centric) directions. A large (and free) National Trust car park exists just off the B4507, up the hill, opposite to the road to Woolstone. From the car park it's a 600-700m walk to the Horse / Castle. I think a separate car park for people with disabilities exists closer to the Horse / Castle and is approached via the narrow road that starts opposite to the road to Uffington village and cuts Dragon Hill from The White Horse (hhmmmm!). This is all well signposted. Note - The B4507 lives up to it's ranking in the B roads stakes. It's a twisty, potholed, slightly narrow thing. |
Posted by pure joy15th February 2004ce |
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Sitting at the roof of Oxfordshire, just looking at the land below, the curvature of the earth, and the pattern of the fields became very centering. Time slowed instantly. The warm wind rustled gently through the long grasses. Its whispering was a panacea to my twisted, mangled, exhausted emotions [after the sudden death of my sister's boyfriend]. Goddess knew how my sister felt; I wished I could pass on some of this spiritual salve. This post appears as part of the weblog entry The Healing and Insight of Oxfordshire Hill Forts
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Posted by treaclechops5th September 2003ce |
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This is a great spot, and I've had some memorable times here. Watching the Leonids meteor shower on a freezing cold night in November at 01:00 in the morning; lying on the ramparts star gazing at midnight on a warm summer night; and stepping across the ditch in thick milky fog that truly felt like the veil between the worlds, where anything was cosmically possible. Today, a chap in a tractor dragged the grass up in the inner circle, filling the air with fabulous smells. The exquisite Cheryl and I walked the green and sunny northern edge, pondering on life in general, as all of Oxfordshire lay before us and the skylarks chased each other over the downland. Bloody lovely. |
Posted by treaclechops 31st August 2003ce |
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'In 1947 a silver coin of the Dobunni, type of Mack 384a, was found at the hill fort of Uffington Castle...' source: Berkshire Archaeological Journal Vol 58 (1960) The Celtic tribe inhabiting the hill fort was Atrebates. Was this coin traded, or the spoils of war? |
Posted by wysefool27th September 2007ce |
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Oh yes we used to make our own entertainment in those days. None of these computer games and ipod things. We knew how to have a good time. If you were wondering what 'backsword play' was, mentioned in Hughes' poem here http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/31182 well: "In backsword play, two men fought with short cudgels, the winner being he who first drew blood from his opponent's head. In this game the men of the Berkshire-Wiltshire border used to fight the men of Somerset, and it was a complaint of the Berkshiremen that the Somerset heads were hard to draw blood from, since 'there's no 'cumulation of blood belongs to thay cider-drinking chaps, as there does to we as drinks beer. Besides, they drinks vinegar allus for a week afore playin', which dries up most o' the blood as they has got; so it takes a 'mazing sight of cloutin' to break their heads as should be." From Hughes's 'The Scouring of the White Horse' (1859) p132. The 'pastimes' were usually held inside Uffington Castle. |
Posted by Rhiannon15th October 2006ce Edited 15th October 2006ce |
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Cloudbustingate Bush's video, Cloudbusting featuring the Uffington landscape |
Posted by Chance15th January 2012ce |
Uffington castle video on youtube |
Posted by wickerman25th April 2009ce |
Dragon Hill, Uffington Castle and The White HorseA panoramic photo 'stitch' showing all three sites. |
Posted by seanj 19th July 2004ce |
English Heritage air photo |
Posted by BrigantesNation 29th March 2004ce |
Excavations on White Horse Hill 1995A detailed report from those University of Oxford bods, about excavations that took place at Uffington Castle in 1995. The page contains diagrams of the area, includinga plan of the fort. The report also describes both a Neolithic long mound and the early Bronze Age barrow near the fort. |
Posted by Kammer14th February 2003ce |
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