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thesweetcheat wrote: The bit in the Children and Nash book about pillow mounds being in any way connected with the Iron Age still bothers me. Pillow mounds are intended for rabbit warrens (which also ties in with the southern slopes of the hill still being called The Warren). Rabbits (I seem to recall) were not native to these islands but were imported by the R*mans - or am I making this up? Perhaps Romano-British I suppose. In the deep murky mists of my memory I recall rabbits were introduced by the Romans. May well be wrong on that though. I know they didn't become a feature of our countryside until the 19th Century when people started to give up on kept rabbit warrens and they escaped and started to breed like... well, rabbits I guess. The still named Beeley Warren behind Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is a good example of a managed warren from that time.an old managed warren. Added: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new[...]ans-introduced-the-rabbit.html Reply | with quote | Posted by common era 8th March 2012ce 12:43 In reply to: Re: 33m deep hole (thesweetcheat) |
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