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It's a long story which I shan't tell here, but as luck/fate would have it, the morfeparents relocated last year to Wales. Pa morfe built a study onto the new family home, which overlooks The Walton basin. I was awestruck by the fecundity of the place, none moreso than the view over The Whimble, a prominent hill which I photographed 3 weeks ago whilst saying my fare-thee-wells before departing across the Pond. The Ritual landscape thread set me thinking, and a little investigation today has blown me away. Wlaton Basin is of course home to the Four Stones, and maybe more significantly Hindwell pallisaded enclosure, a vast section of land managed for unknown purposes during the Bronze Age, arguably the largest enclosure of it's type in Western Europe. I want to know more. Always fascinated by Western Hills, and having spent my life so far hypnotised by the sun setting over the Severn Valley and the Welsh Hills, it comes as no surprise to find this link:

http://www.megalithicsites.co.uk/4stobache1.html

I'll email the webmaster for further details. The whole area is peppered with Neolithica. Anyone know more, I'd be grateful?

~O~!

I know a little about the Walton Basin, mainly because I have a copy of The Walton Basin Project: Excavation and Survey in a Prehistoric Landscape 1993-7 by Alex Gibson.

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/pubs/prehist.html

It does state that the Hindwell pallisaded enclosure is *by far* the largest Neolithic enclosure in Britain, however, there`s an even larger one at Urmitz in Germany.


baz

Morfe - I'm very interested in your description of the Walton Basin, and it got me thinking about the way the area is categorised on TMA.

How big is the area you're describing? Do you reckon the site group "Old Radnor & the Four Stones" should be changed to the Walton Basin? I guess this would effectively enlarge it quite a bit. Perhaps there isn't enough up there to warrant a larger geographical area.

What do you reckon?

Kammer x