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The Trundle

35 points by benbreen 5y ago

swilliamsio 5y ago
There's nothing more universally deflating as a British child than being told you're going to see some ancient hill fort, letting your castle-filled imagination run wild, before arriving there after a long car journey, and just seeing a hill.
- rob74 5y ago
  That's why some archaeologists "enhanced" their hills by adding "reconstructed" features that were probably never there in the first place: > [...] O'Kelly concluded that they had made up a retaining wall, but had fallen from the face of the mound. As part of the restoration, this wall was "rebuilt" and the cobblestones were fixed into a near-vertical steel-reinforced concrete wall surrounding the front of the mound. This work is controversial among the archaeological community. [...] Neil Oliver described the reconstruction as "a bit brutal, a bit overdone, kind of like Stalin does the Stone Age". Critics of the new wall claim that the technology to fix a retaining wall at this angle did not exist when the mound was created. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange)
- rjsw 5y ago
  I remember going to several hill forts as a child, don't think I felt deflated, it was interesting to compare them with later castles.
kitd 5y ago
A few miles down the road from me. Another nearby place to visit if you're in the Chichester area is Kingley Vale [1]. It too has a hill fort at the top, but even more impressive is the amazing 1000-year-old yew forest at the bottom. Planted (according to tradition) by the Saxons to celebrate a victory over the Vikings. [1] https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/kingley-vale/ https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/kingle... ed: also check out the lovely country pub in the village of Stoughton at the bottom.
raytube 5y ago
Good to see some trundle loving on HN, if you visit do not attempt the track by car west of it leading south! You can park close by, but it still feels like a hike to the top.
krthowaway 5y ago
Been up there 3 times in the past couple weeks. Not a lot of light polution over there, great for seeing stars!

35 points by benbreen 5y ago

There's nothing more universally deflating as a British child than being told you're going to see some ancient hill fort, letting your castle-filled imagination run wild, before arriving there after a long car journey, and just seeing a hill.

rob74 5y ago
That's why some archaeologists "enhanced" their hills by adding "reconstructed" features that were probably never there in the first place: > [...] O'Kelly concluded that they had made up a retaining wall, but had fallen from the face of the mound. As part of the restoration, this wall was "rebuilt" and the cobblestones were fixed into a near-vertical steel-reinforced concrete wall surrounding the front of the mound. This work is controversial among the archaeological community. [...] Neil Oliver described the reconstruction as "a bit brutal, a bit overdone, kind of like Stalin does the Stone Age". Critics of the new wall claim that the technology to fix a retaining wall at this angle did not exist when the mound was created. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange)
rjsw 5y ago
I remember going to several hill forts as a child, don't think I felt deflated, it was interesting to compare them with later castles.

kitd 5y ago

A few miles down the road from me. Another nearby place to visit if you're in the Chichester area is Kingley Vale [1]. It too has a hill fort at the top, but even more impressive is the amazing 1000-year-old yew forest at the bottom. Planted (according to tradition) by the Saxons to celebrate a victory over the Vikings. [1] https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/kingley-vale/ https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/kingle... ed: also check out the lovely country pub in the village of Stoughton at the bottom.

raytube 5y ago

Good to see some trundle loving on HN, if you visit do not attempt the track by car west of it leading south! You can park close by, but it still feels like a hike to the top.

krthowaway 5y ago

Been up there 3 times in the past couple weeks. Not a lot of light polution over there, great for seeing stars!