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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This one was a bit of a happy accident as I had no idea it was here. We’d set off for a Sunday afternoon walk with my brother-in-law’s family to the Tyndale Monument (the Nibley Knob as it’s known locally) which was erected in 1866 to the memory of William Tyndale, a local man from North Nibley, who’d had the bare faced cheek to translate the bible from Latin to English and was strangled and burned for his trouble in France!
Making our way along the escarpment from Wooton-under-Edge through dense woodland I was suddenly aware that we were walking along the edge of some massive banks and ditches and I asked if it was what I thought it was and was given an affirmative. As we traversed the edge it became clear that it was quite a good size and a typical Iron Age bivallate promontory fort, not quite as impressive as it’s nearby neighbour at Uley Bury and certainly a lot more overgrown with vegetation, but there had been obvious attempts to clear some of this from the outer ditches. On the South Western edge there was an entrance way, but it was difficult to know whether this was original as it looked a bit too new and there were bits of limestone building material visible under tree roots. Possibly it had recently been enlarged to enable the gradual clearance of the interior. However, at the moment the interior is still quite choked and almost impenetrable. It would definitely be worth a revisit during the late autumn when the foliage has thinned as the views over the surrounding area to the South and as far as Bristol are just stunning.
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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English pre-history photographic exhibition at The Treasure House, Beverley, East Yorkshire.
A bit of shameless self-promotion here.
Alison and I have an exhibition of our work titled ‘Traces’ at The Treasure House, Beverley, East Yorkshire opening on Saturday 4th August and finishing Saturday 29th September. the link below takes you to a pdf from the museum website and we’re on page 6. If I can find a better link I’ll let you know and if anyone’s in the area do come and have a look. Thanks.
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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Picture and description of a sculpture of St. Cuthman, the builder of the original Saxon church, now named St. Andrews. Interestingly he is depicted with his foot firmly on top of the prostrated Pagan Steyning Stone.
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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The earthwork running parallel to the LDP. (Note the sarcens scattered along the ditch).
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