Like a scene from a battle between man and nature.... and this time man won! View from the South West (I think they were trying to rid the site of Rhododendrons, but it looks more like armageddon!)
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View from the North.
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Panorama from the North Western side.
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The footpath from the Eastern side.
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From the south-west (ish)
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Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Northern defences......
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Eastern flank, looking north. Note uprooted trees.....
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Western flank, looking south.
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The enclosure from the approx north. The white feature, centre left, is the base of the 19th Century folly.
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The western flank, looking north.... bit of a tangled mess, but nonetheless still here.
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From the approx south, showing the 19th century folly (not bad, as far as they go).
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I was here on the lovely High Weald the other day and somewhere very close to the hillfort. Its location’s easy to spot from afar because it has a strange gothic Rapunzel-style tower. So I can’t tell you about the remnants of the late Bronze Age / early Iron Age hillfort at all (yeah yeah, not Saxon, please, despite its name). But I was most intrigued by the amount of crags and caves in the vicinity. They just had that look of having prehistoric significance. I was surprised to see them at all, they were not something I expected to see in this part of the world. Certainly Eridge Rocks (very slightly to the northwest) have produced traces of life in mesolithic times (see here) . I think with a bit of practice I could have been quite comfy there myself. Well on a sunny day at least.
Sites within 20km of Saxonbury Hill
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High Rocks
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High Rocks Hill Fort
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Tile Lodge
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Peat Lump Hill
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Castle Hill, Tonbridge
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The Park Fort
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Dry Hill
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