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| Approaching Badbury Rings on foot; you'd think it just another hill, unless you noticed the giant terracing |
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| Thus; pre-Roman; after the Romans took over, the hill-fort village declined, the population moving to a new town nearby' on the Stour |
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| Entering the ditch and ramparts |
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| Summit marker, I guess; it's in the middle of the now-forested hill-fort, useless to anyone that doesn't have X-ray vision |
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| Walking along the top rampart; I would guess the ditch is twenty feet deep; and then there are two more ditches and two more ramparts; very steep too; designed to discourage/impede would-be attackers |
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| The immediate area has been inhabited some 6,000 years, as attested by these nearby mounds; well, as you can see, Crebain out of Dunland were massing-- spies of Saruman!--so we had to move on to the next home and garden |
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