The Citadel from Upton Court Park, south-east Slough
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I got a little over-excited when I saw this view. This is standing at the Temple of Mithras, looking up Watling Street (the old Roman road from Kent), straight up to St Pauls. My mind was working overtime with ideas of alignments, generations of evolving sacred complexes and who knows what else.
Then I discovered that the Temple of Mithras had been moved from around the corner, but I still like this picture --- it was a moment when I stopped to look at the ancient arrangement of the City, something subterranian, primitive and ancient, still holding up despite thousands of years of re-arrangement and “development”.
It’s all there if you look ...
This is probably why they don’t let you in very often. No-one would go if they knew it was propped up like this!
Victorian chippings at the top, mysterious dagger shapes at the bottom
The Ridgeway runs past here, down to Bledlow Cross, to the Watlington White Mark, over Uffington White Horse, then Alton Barnes, to some place in Wiltshire ....
This barrow has had a right old battering, but still commands the top of the hill
Killer view from the top ... rainclouds were approaching, but you can still see Wain Hill, site of the Bledlow Cross – the ridge poking out on the left hand side of the picture. This is the view from by the main barrow on top the hill (well, just to the side, but you get the gist). The Ridgeway runs along here as well ...
The top is pretty grown over, and could do with a scouring. These arms are about 7m long
it’s one steep hill, and badly eroded – people used to go sledging down here.
spot the “slight bump” ...
a new house is trying to use the ditch and back as a nice terrace ... work is supposed to have stopped months ago ... hmmm. Not on ...
Bulstrode Tree Chimneys
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These are the strangest things – not neolithic, just 100 years old, but if you’re visiting Bulstrode Camp, you really should go and see them.
Bulstrode Tree Chimneys
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These are the strangest things – not neolithic, just 100 years old, but if you’re visiting Bulstrode Camp, you really should go and see them.
again, notice the 2 small dots to the left of the picture ... those are people, so you can see how big the ditches are ...
those 2 small dots in the middle are people, to give you a feel for the size of these banks. They are *big*
as demonstrated by Mrs Gibbon ... notice the banks of Dyke Hills at the edge of the crops
view looking west over Gloucester – Brecon Beacons on the left, Malverns on the right
lovely
western wall defences
the sign says “The Tarry Stone at which sports were held before AD 1506 after many travels was returned to this it’s ancient site in AD 1937”
notice the lowered area in front of the mound
from a distance (it’s on a golf course ...)
