A R Cane
A glimpse into the interior of the chamber.
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The largest stone at the tail end of the barrow.
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Almost 180º panorama from the North East. Amazing that something as big as this can be squirrelled away in a town centre.
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The barrow adjacent to the Hardy Monument on Black Down. Not so much a monument as more like an industrial chimney!
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The perfect end to a perfect day as the sun ripples over the Eastern flanks of the mighty Pilsdon Pen
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Medieval pillow mound/Bronze Age barrows? Difficult to tell them apart though the rough ground in the middle distance is certainly a Medieval enclosure.
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What I presume to be the main entrance on the Eastern side.
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Close up of the knobbly side.
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The stone in the wall showing it in context with the Longstone. Bit of a crazy balancing act getting that one!
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Smaller loose stones next to the stone wall alongside the road.
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The substantial double banks on the Northern side of this fantastically overgrown camp.
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Possible entrance/exit on the South West side. I got the feeling that it may have been recently created or possibly enlarged to help with the clearance of wood, which makes it all but impossible to see or navigate the interior of the camp.
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Looking down on the inner ditch and outer ring on the SW side from a possible entrance/exit.
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This is why they didn’t need any fortifications on the South West side!
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Viewed from the top of the Tyndale Monument. The camp is well hidden amongst the woodland.
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Looking North from the road between Alton Priors and Pewsey. The helicopter had just picked up an unfortunate cyclist who had come off his bike so we were all queued up waiting, but it did provide a good opportunity for photographing the beautiful local landscape. Hope he was OK.
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It really is a monster of a barrow. Mrs Cane for scale.
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Panoramic view across the Vale of Pewsey on the way down from the barrow.
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This handsome bell barrow sits almost at the top of the hill next to the road connecting Alfriston and Seaford. The fast and dangerous road is between the pond and barrow and just the other side of the barrow there’s a white horse carved into the hillside.
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The white horse figure just along from the bell barrow and, as far as I’m aware, the only horse figure in Sussex, but sadly only Victorian.
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This will probably end up on the ‘disputed antiquity’ list, but this is reputedly the stone that gives Steyning it’s name. There’s very little known about it but one end is apparently more worn than the other, suggesting it once stood erect. It now resides in the porch of St. Andrews Church.
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If this is a genuine standing stone then that’s quite some artwork. There again perhaps it was a later addition.
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The bottom of the stone with a cross incised. Or is the stone upside down as the cross would appear to be?
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Three small barrows on a spur off Overton Down.
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Sheep, stone, sheep, stone, sheep, stone.......
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Part of a string of large sarcens lining the LDP near the Grey Wethers.
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My sister and brother dwarfed by ancient beeches.
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