The entrance to the fort from the carpark on the Southern side. Mrs Cane, making a swift ascent of the substantial banks on the left hand side, for scale!
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A R Cane
Panorama of the interior looking South with the main road off to the right.
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Looking East back from the top of the bank next to the B3180.
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Looking South West from the SDW footpath with the three large barrows prominent on the skyline.
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Panorama of the interior of the fort looking South East.
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The middle of the three large barrows in the interior of the fort looking South East.
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Panorama looking South West from the SDW footpath.
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Looking South from the main road/South Downs Way.
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Looking South East. The South Downs Way track runs right past it and there are a couple of bumps slightly further East on the other side of the track before you approach Cheesefoot Head.
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The largest barrow looking back west to Winchester.
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The ransacked barrow and the view west of the Devil’s Dyke and the South Downs.
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The faint line of what may have been a small enclosure on the hill top.
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A smaller cross dyke which comes almost to the summit of Steep Down with Cissbury Ring in the distance on the right.
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At the end of the dyke which nestles in a dip between Steep Down and Lancing Ring.
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Barrow 7 with additional gate.
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Barrows 7 and 6 from the B3170
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The interior of the fort with some of the later Norman fortifications. The Norman castle at the Northwestern end fell into ruin a long time ago and now there’s a farm occupying the site.
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View into the interior from the bank running alongside the road to the car park.
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The ramparts on the South Eastern side and the entrance/exit to the car park on the right.
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The Iron Age ramparts that now butt up against the road to the car park.
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One of the immense gnarled stones in the valley bottom as you come from the Manton race circuit end. This one was neatly segmented in three.
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The setting sun looking from the ramparts back along The Ridgeway.
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Panorama of the fort interior from the western entrance.
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Just to continue the ongoing sheep theme....
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Lord’s Seat in shadow in the foreground and Mam Tor in t’ background
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Lord’s Seat barrow with Mam Tor just behind and the enigmatic Hope Valley to the left.
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