Looking West along the edge of the enclosure(?) earthwork which runs parallel with the public footpath through the Freshwater golf course. It’s quite long and starts outside the course near the solitary barrow at Tapnell Down.
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The corner of the enclosure(?) earthwork with a curious stone near the corner.
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Two very large barrows located within the Freshwater Golf Course just before you start the descent towards the clubhouse. Glad to discover they hadn’t been tampered with like some of the other unfortunate barrows here.
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Hackpen Hill White Horse and the Marlborough Downs in the background of this possibly contentious standing stone.
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Venturing forth over the sacred wall. Nice bit of veg.
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Looking South. If you’re wondering where the information board has gone, I photoshopped it out. Why was it sited so close to the barrow? Probably ruined lots of peoples shots over the years!
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Looking back towards the chimney and mined landscape. The chink in the foreground is right next to the half covered cist.
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Easy to understand the positioning of this burial chamber at the end of everything with it’s fantastic juncture between the land, the sea and the sky.
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Panorama of the South East quadrant with possibly the best bit of the ditch.
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A bizarre story. Some friends of ours currently have an art installation at Worthing 6th Form College and asked me to come and photograph it today. At the end of the shoot I noticed what was obviously a roughed out flint axe head on a table along with some of their other bits and pieces and asked them what it was doing there. They said they’d found it down the side of an old garage next door and had noticed the writing on it (MH Harrow Hill 50), but didn’t know exactly what it was. I suspect someone borrowed it years ago from the local museum to draw, but failed to give it back. I’m off to the museum tomorrow morning to check it out.
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Overall dimensions are 15cm long, 10cm wide and 8cm deep.
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First visit here.....and lost for words.
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Almost too cute for words....with a few associated stones in the foreground.
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Another one for the collection and positively ‘porcini-like’.
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We couldn’t really have asked for a better backdrop. Thank you Preseli Mountains.
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The outliers which align on the Summer Solstice (apparently).
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Going for an aerial view to try and emphasise the pentagonal nature of the site.
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Whoopee! There they are! We struggled to find them in the thick fog and had to rely on wind direction to find our way back down.
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Looking back up the hill towards Carn Bica, just visible in the fog.
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In it’s landscape viewed from atop the nearby rocks.
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Some of the large stones which may, or may not, have been part of the original cromlech.
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Panorama showing the relationship with the shoreline.
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Viewed from the rocky outcrop alongside the tomb.
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Just after the 30 Geology students from Cardiff Uni departed having kindly pointed out that there were also some stone circles down the end there (the hut circles of St. David’s Head camp). Cheers guys.
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Panorama of the older, outer walls and the reinforced inner IA wall. The entrance is on the far left.
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Parallel walls built before the reinforcement of the camp in the iron Age.
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The large stones in the foreground make up the kerb to the entrance and are part of older, pre-Iron Age walls.
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The entrance/exit of the camp through the Iron Age bank.
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One of the larger and more obvious hut circles.
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From this elevated position we could make out 6, possibly 7, hut circles.
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Note the strange little hummock next to the track that the bank goes around. What’s that all about?
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