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Spring sunshine on Churchdown Hill (centre) from Leckhampton Hill.

Evening light, Bamburgh.

Soil erosion on the southeastern arc of rampart.

The gorse-covered southern rampart. Then ground drops away to a stream below this side.

The view seawards, looking along the northern arc of rampart.

Northwestern arc of rampart.

Biggish slab in the northeastern arc of rampart.

The southern arc.

The medieval wall on top of the presumed line of the Iron Age rampart.

Looking SW towards Scrog Hill.

Looking down on the flat landscape to the northwest.

The steep cliffs above Rumble Churn.

The open interior. There’s a sizeable space enclosed by the defences.

Defensive bank below the castle walls.

The prominent site, seen across Embleton Bay from the northwest.

Under the firs.

From the northwest.

The New Road Bottom barrows from the northeast.

Savernake 2, the northern of the New Road Bottom barrows.

Savernake 3, the southern of the two New Road Bottom barrows.

New Road Bottom barrows from the southeast, Savernake 3 in the foreground, Savernake 2 behind.

A bit young for TMA, but at over 1,000 years old the Big Belly Oak is a venerable tree, standing close to Savernake 4 round barrow.

Savernake 4. The barrow is oddly half grass-covered and half bracken. The bracken was thankfully dead when we visited in April.

Savernake 4.

Savernake 4, the barrow near Big Belly Oak.

Bache Hill II in the foreground, with Bache Hill I (the summit barrow) beyond.

Bache Hill II barrow.

Bache Hill summit barrow.

Looking towards the landscape around the prehistoric complex of Walton Basin from the Bache Hill summit barrow.

The fabulous Bache Hill summit barrow, an old favourite and one of the finest barrows in Mid-Wales, in both size and location.

Retrospective view as I headed off to Bache Hill.

The summit barrow, Easter Saturday 2019.

The top of the summit barrow, looking southwest-ish towards the Brecon Beacons.

The top of the summit barrow is regrettably being eroded by off-road bikes.

Nice to see the summit barrow without the fog!

Mynydd Foesidoes barrow. This one is difficult to get to, as the heather is energy-sapping.

The overgrown top of the Mynydd Foesidoes barrow.

The NW barrow in the Mynydd Ffoesidoes nature reserve, from the north. Black Mixen’s summit barrow is near the mast.

Looking south, with Black Mixen summit on the left.

Cwm Bwch I in the foreground, Cwm Bwch II behind.

Cwm Bwch I, the northern and lowest of the three barrows.

Cwm Bwch II.

Looking southwest over Cwm Bwch II. Cwm Bwch III is on top of the opposite ridge, far left.

Cwm Bwch II.

The northern spur of the escarpment above Cwm Bwch. Barrows I and II are at the end of the spur, right.