We used to go to Totternhoe Knoll, the Sharpenhoe Clappers and Ivinghoe Beacon when I was very little (throughout the Seventies). I remember playing there, but had no idea they were hillforts or owt!

Also spent a lot of time running over the Five Knolls on Dunstable Downs, but again, never really realised what they were (I knew, of course, that they were burial mounds, but little else) till some time after... All our history lessons were based around the Roman occupation and later, you see, with very little about the prehistory. As is, I believe, the norm..!

Also remember, on a school trip in the Eighties, the coach drove past Stonehenge just as Concorde was flying overhead - I loved that! Quite an amazing image.

G x