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tjj Nov 14, 2013 09:48:06

Replying to spencer

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'.

spencer Nov 14, 2013 10:35:10

Replying to tjj

As far as I can make out the only time it has been mentioned on TMA is in '02. Long while ago. Obviously a place once of great importance. It's absolutely HUGE. Seeing those earthworks from the west was definitely a case of 'wtf????' Undug in modern times... yet nobody mentions it. I'm not sure if all the land inside the rampants is accessible, but promise that a day spent wandering round Powerstock Forest, with its bracken covered tumuli - a very strange place in itself - looking up at Eggardon, and then going there is a day very well spent. And when the mist comes down...

thesweetcheat Nov 14, 2013 18:03:21

Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:

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).