Hambledon Hill
This week's Saturday Timewatch features Hambledon Hill, Dorset. It is a prehistoric Iron Age hill fort where radio-carbon dating of objects found during archaeological investigation show the hill fort goes back to at least 2850BC.....almost 5000 years ago.
Both Maiden Castle and Eggardon hill forts have featured here before. They are impressive. However, Hambledon Hill is even more monumental by comparison, both when viewed from below and from on top. The cattle in the foreground give some indication of the hill fort's size. It rises to 192m (630 ft) from the Blackmore Vale above the village of Child Okeford.
Note the long barrow burial chamber top left on the summit.
Hambledon Hill
This week's Saturday Timewatch features Hambledon Hill, Dorset. It is a prehistoric Iron Age hill fort where radio-carbon dating of objects found during archaeological investigation show the hill fort goes back to at least 2850BC.....almost 5000 years ago.
Both Maiden Castle and Eggardon hill forts have featured here before. They are impressive. However, Hambledon Hill is even more monumental by comparison, both when viewed from below and from on top. The cattle in the foreground give some indication of the hill fort's size. It rises to 192m (630 ft) from the Blackmore Vale above the village of Child Okeford.
Note the long barrow burial chamber top left on the summit.