Eggardon Hill
This weekend's post is a combined historical Saturday Timewatch and Sunday Landscape, showing the view to west Dorset from a height of approximately 800' or 250 metres.
Although less well known than nearby Maiden Castle, this Iron Age hill fort is just as well preserved. The people on the slope give scale to the photo. Apparently Eggardon has never been seriously excavated by archaeologists. However it is thought to be defended settlement dating from around 300 BC. According to Wiki the name derives from an Old English place name, meaning "the hill belonging to Eohhere".
By the way, the flat hill on the horizon (just left of centre) is another hill fort known as Pilsdon Pen.
Eggardon Hill
This weekend's post is a combined historical Saturday Timewatch and Sunday Landscape, showing the view to west Dorset from a height of approximately 800' or 250 metres.
Although less well known than nearby Maiden Castle, this Iron Age hill fort is just as well preserved. The people on the slope give scale to the photo. Apparently Eggardon has never been seriously excavated by archaeologists. However it is thought to be defended settlement dating from around 300 BC. According to Wiki the name derives from an Old English place name, meaning "the hill belonging to Eohhere".
By the way, the flat hill on the horizon (just left of centre) is another hill fort known as Pilsdon Pen.