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Sporting midsummer vegetation.

(Almost) Midsummer Maidens – a rabbit’s eye view.

A road runs through it – no car needed, public transport available!

Another view of this well-preserved roundhouse.

Another roundhouse, Mulfra Hill on the right horizon.

Another of the roundhouses, looking north(ish).

Roundhouse, looking north-west(ish) to the sea. Note use of very large boulders in the construction.

Roundhouse, another behind, with the ridge of Mulfra Hill on the horizon.

One of the roundhouses.

A view of the rock formation known as the “Devil’s Chimney”

Looking east towards the eastern rampart from within the hillfort.

Leckhampton Hill in its landscape – the view over the escarpment to the north (with the Malverns on the left horizon and Bredon Hill on the right).

View from the eastern approach.

The south-easterly barrows, from the road.

The most south-easterly of the barrows visible on the horizon, from the road to the south-west.

A view of the western rampart, looking south, showing the sunken lane running along the western side of the site.

Picture taken from a gap along the western rampart, looking south (the southern rampart is visible along the middle ground to the left of the photo).

Picture shows the southern part of the rampart, looking from the SW.

Looking south-west(ish) along the ditch between the outer and inner ramparts.

The approach from the south, ramparts on the horizon. The two trees known as “The Three Sisters” (there used to be three!) are visible to the left of centre.

The possible round barrow adjacent to The Ring.

Wide angle view of The Ring, viewed from the North.

The Ring, viewed from the SE, looking down the slope.

The enigmatic block known as Huddlestone’s Table. Cleeve Cloud hillfort’s ramparts and interior lie along the horizon immediately behind the table.

The southern ramparts, looking west(ish) over the edge of the escarpment into fog.

The ramparts along the SE edge of the fort, looking eastwards in thick fog (walker for scale)

A view from near The Ring on Cleeve Hill, looking NW. Somewhere in the picture is the possible longbarrow known (and shown on the OS) as “Ben’s Tump”, but I’m not sure which lump it is! There is also an intriguing circular vegetation mark in the centre of the picture, revealed by nettles.

Looking south. The mist clung to the Cotswold escarpment and made my visit to Cleeve Cloud later in the morning one of zero visibility.

View from the southwest, showing the modern drystone wall around the site

View from the south, showing the modern drystone wall surrounding the site. Early midwinter morning.

The NE chamber, illuminated by the early midwinter sun (it didn’t last)

Midwinter sunrise over the mound.

Sunrise itself was shrouded in cloud, but shortly afterwards (8am) the sky turned a bit pink and then the sun came out

Trevorgans Menhir

Trevorgans in its landscape, framed by the twin hills of Chapel Carn Brea and Bartinne

The tallest of the remaining standing stones from the “circle”.

Looking south-west. Mulfra barrows are just over the horizon.

Treen Common “circle” looking north-west towards Carn Galva and Watch Croft. Not the best time of year to see this!

Inside the Bartinne enclosure

Barrow near Bartinne enclosure, looking towards Chapel Carn Brea

2:45 on a crisp December afternoon

The southern barrow, approaching from the north

From the Ridgeway (with hot air balloon)

The frost melting in the ditch of the henge

The ditch of the largest barrow.

Windmill Hill barrows.

The longstones, seen from the north on the trackway to Windmill Hill

Crisp morning from the Avebury car-park

Castle-an-Dinas in its landscape context, looking south-east across Mounts Bay to St Michaels Mount

Another section of the rampart, showing the rubble construction (very like Chun Castle)