Tag: Prehistory
Sentinel
Embankment
Embankment shows a wooded section of an earthwork (the outer rampart) at Danebury Hill, an impressive Iron Age hill fort near Andover in Hampshire. I have been told that the entire site was, not that long ago, almost entirely woodland. The council have since cleared…
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The Devil’s Den (The Resting Place) – SOLD
Painted from life on an unseasonably hot April day. At the time of painting, I only knew this Wiiltshire dolmen (the closest prehistoric stone monument to where I live) by the name used on the Ordnance Survey map (and in Julian Cope‘s excellent gazetteer, The…
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