Your bike and a prehistoric site

[FrothNinja]

Ramparts of Castercliff, an Iron Age multivallate hillfort.
Some dodgy earth moving and dumping going on at the other gate - tres ropey as it's an important scheduled monument and very rare one at that.

 

[bluenotebob]

The menhir (standing stone) at la Pierre Longue (a handful of kms SSE from Pleucadeuc).

It’s hard on the D774 (fast road) in a field guarded by barbed wire and on a crossroads with a fork off one of the branches .. so it was quite tricky to take photos safely and to get my bike to pose.

 

[robjh]

Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, a few years ago

 

[bluenotebob]

Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, a few years ago

Outstanding ! .. more, please ..

 

[robjh]

Outstanding ! .. more, please ..

I've been checking through my photos - I have cycled up to many ancient monuments, but have rarely included my bike in the view

 

[bluenotebob]

I've been checking through my photos - I have cycled up to many ancient monuments, but have rarely included my bike in the view

Go back and do them all again - but with the bike in the photo this time? Just kidding ..

That's a great photo of Silbury Hill.

There are plenty of standing stones, burial chambers and stone circles in this neck of the woods (central Brittany) but a lot of them are almost completely inaccessible by bike (and some are on private land).

I think I may have to carry a bike on my shoulder if I'm going to make a meaningful contribution to this thread.

 

[robjh]

The prehistoric site here is not so obvious, but I am riding along the course of the Heydon Ditch in Cambridgeshire, one of three parallel ditch-and-rampart earthworks that cross over the Icknield Way (today's A505 and A11 hereabouts) and run from former fen or marsh land up to the first higher ground. The earthworks are better defined on the hillside ahead, below the village of Heydon.
The most famous of these parallel barriers is the Devil's Dyke which cuts across the A11 near Newmarket, and the middle one is the Brent Ditch near Pampisford, of which few easily visible traces remain. They were probably erected in the 6th-7th centuries, but who exactly built them and why is essentially unknown.

 

[Illaveago]

Naish Hill Fort Iron age with some Roman finds, near Lacock Wiltshire. They think there were some Roman kilns nearby and floor tiles for Medieval churches were also made in the area. Small fragments of

Roman pottery can be found washed out into the road at the bottom of the hill.

 

[tyred]

Is this a fort or a sheep pen!

 

[MontyVeda]

Is this a fort or a sheep pen!

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what does the OS map say?

 

[FrothNinja]

Bit small but it could be something like a diminutive rath.
The construction and latter spread suggests a fair degree of antiquity.

 

[Dadam]

Castle Hill, Huddersfield. The Victoria Tower isn't prehistoric but the earthworks are.

 

[FrothNinja]

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Castle Hill, Huddersfield. The Victoria Tower isn't prehistoric but the earthworks are.

Site of a legendary battle, history defining according to some