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Another view of the earthworks, left by the demolition of a parade of shops with flats above them. As seen on a walk.
A look inside the derelict Fuller's Earthworks factory, in Redhill, Surrey. Now torn down for housing I believe, this site was famous for being on every urbexer in the South-East's "have visited" list.
Shot with my Nikon D40 and a Sigma 10-20mm EX DC HSM lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
The derelict Fuller's Earthworks factory, in Redhill, Surrey. Now torn down for housing I believe, this site was famous for being on every urbexer in the South-East's "have visited" list.
Shot with my Nikon D40 and a Sigma 10-20mm EX DC HSM lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
Family of fishermen performing the important function of repairing fishing gear in the fishing port of Marbella.
Decided to process this in mono.
It was a frosty morning on this visit.
Avebury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles west of Marlborough and 8 miles northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury
These two photographs today were taken in the mist beside the Tamar River. The early morning light produced beautiful soft pastel colours, and just enough to illuminate the textures in the foreground scrub. If you enlarge this shot you will be able to see emerging from the mist the primary source of my title and composition.
Another early revisit here today.
My last visit was on the first lockdown in March 2020.
Guess who forgot to change his camera clock !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So EXIF is and hour out
A young holly sat in the dip of the ancient earthwork of Grimms Ditch and meets up with a bunch of young beech. An almost tender arm reaches out to greet her! Taken in Barnes's Grove on a very chilly morning. I love the playful nature of the trees that line the ditch, each time I visit there are always more scenes to uncover.
We have a lot of earth works going on at our property, and I am finding so many fascinating elements to document. This is an attachment for the excavator and a big pile of clay material we’re holding onto so that we can hopefully have enough to line a small dam!!
Park Pale is an earthwork in Park Wood, Ruislip.
It was dug by hand about a thousand years ago and consisted of a four meter ditch and a meter high bank enclosing an area where the aristocracy could hunt deer.
Only parts of it are visible today, and parts have been worn down by erosion, due to a path along the top.
"Earthworks" florists at Uppingham, with a lovely double bow window shop front. Photo could have done with some direct light on the building but it's a nice looking shop front so worth a share regardless.
Voigtlander Brilliant S (focussing)
Heliar 75mm f/3.5 lens
Ilford Delta 100 film
Lab develop & scan
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Castle Rising builf in 1140 in Norfolk. Taken atop the inner of two defensive earthworks. The central Norman keep is little changed and is one of England's finest.
Not many English parish churches stand in ruins, and fewer still occupy sites associated with prehistoric rituals.
Four thousand years separate the late Neolithic earthwork at Knowlton and the ruined Norman church that stands at its centre. The earthwork itself is just one part of a landscape which is one of the great Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial complexes in southern England.
The pairing of the henge and the church symbolises the transition from pagan to Christian worship, and is an unusual combination of a church within a Neolithic Henge.
Knowlton used to be a thriving Saxon village until all of the inhabitants of the village were killed by the Plague. The foundations of the village can be seen as earthworks in a field a few hundred yards to the west of the church.
This earthwork winds for 35 miles/56km, but little is known about its history. In places the bank is 4m high and the ditch 2.5m deep, which suggests it was defensive. But elsewhere, what remains looks more like a boundary marker. It is not known exactly when it was built, so there are different theories. It might have been for the Romans to protect against rebellion by the Britons, the Britons to guard against invasion by the Anglo-Saxons or for the Anglo-Saxons of Wessex to defend against attack from those of Mercia. It is thought unlikely that a defensive stucture would have been made in the middle of a large wood where there would be little visibility to give warning of an approaching army, so an idea is that this would once have been farmland. Whatever the orign, it is a testament to the passing of time, now a mere curiosity encroached upon by the bluebells that are so abundant here.
Part of my 'Duffus Castle through the seasons' project.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
The Citadel in Hue, Vietnam consists of 8 kilometers of walls in a square (2 km X 2 km) all surrounded by a wide deep moat fed by the river. There is a fortified gate on each side plus fortified towers including the corners. Within the Citadel lies the Imperial City with it's own 2.5 km of walls.
—from Wikipedia
In June 1802, after more than a century of division and the defeat of the Tây Sơn dynasty, Nguyễn Ánh ascended the throne of a unified Vietnam and proclaimed himself Emperor Gia Long. With a nation now stretching from the Red River Delta to the Mekong Delta, Emperor Gia Long moved the capital from the northern Thăng Long (current Hanoi) to Huế, the ancestral seat of the Nguyễn lords. Gia Long looked to "Confucianism and Chinese models of statecraft" as the best modes of authority, and with this ideology, he ordered the construction of a palace complex based on Beijing's Forbidden City in Huế. Geomancers were consulted as to a propitious location site for the new city, and construction began in 1803. Thousands of workers were ordered to build the walled citadel and ringing moat, measuring some 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long. The original earthwork was later reinforced and faced with brick and stone resulting in 2 m (6 ft 7 in)-thick ramparts.
No roads cross the flat desolate expanse of Ot Moor, but a Roman Road dissects it almost in half running north to south and it survives as a footpath and low earthworks.
I'd hoped to take it to the wetland nature reserve in the centre of the moor, but an unnervingly close shave with a lightning bolt, a good soaking and pummeling with marble sized hailstones I decided it was too dangerous to be out and about in this very exposed landscape so shortened my walk. The Roman Road and footpath follows that hedgerow on the near horizon.
Climbing up to the village of Beckley that overlooks the moor, another storm just passing (I'd managed to shelter in thick woodlands) and another one on the way from the right.
There was blue sky between the storms but somehow I managed to be under cloud all day until almost in sight of the pub and my pick-up point.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced in the Federal Register Dec. 14, 2010 that it is considering whether to forward any nominations from properties on the U.S. Tentative List to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre next year. The department will consider public comments received during a 30-day comment period in making a decision regarding which properties may advance for full nomination.
The list includes Serpent Mound as well as nine Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks: Fort Ancient, Mound City Group, Seip Earthworks, Hopeton Earthworks, Hopewell Mound Group, High Bank Works and the Newark Earthworks (Octagon Earthworks, Great Circle Earthworks, and Wright Earthworks).
This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to list these Ohio sites alongside other cultural sites of outstanding universal value, including Stonehenge, the Pyramids of Giza and Cahokia Mounds. We need you to submit your comments to the National Park Service.
If you have the time and are so inclined, please send a letter (email) of support by January, 12.
More information at this link:
www.ohiohistory.org/sn/103107.html
Also, feel free to forward the information to anyone who might take an interest in this.
[the image: digital model of the Newark Octagon Earthworks]
An Ancestral Community
The River Givers Life
The Animas River flows out of the San Juan Mountains & across the plains of northwestern New Mexico. Near today's city of Aztec, early farmers took advantage of the river's year-round water. Later, ancestral Puebloan culture developed in the Four Corners region.
In the 1000s the ancestral Puebloans began building a large complex overlooking the river. When construction ceased in the later 1200s, the community consisted of great houses, kivas, (circular ceremonial chambers), small residential pueblos, earthworks, & roads. The formal layout, purposeful landscape modifications, & orientation & visual relationships among buildings indicate a master design. Over a span of 200 years it reached its final expression, long after the blueprint was conceived & building began.
Most prominent are the great houses-well-planned public buildings of many connected rooms surrounding a central plaza. By 1105 people began harvesting wood from distant sources to build the largest structure, now known as Aztec West. This great house took its final form by 1130.
The Burana Tower is a large minaret in the Chuy Valley in northern Kyrgyzstan. It is located about 80 km east of the country's capital Bishkek, near the town of Tokmok. The tower, along with grave markers, some earthworks and the remnants of a castle and three mausoleums, is all that remains of the ancient city of Balasagun, which was established by the Karakhanids at the end of the 9th century. An external staircase and steep, winding stairway inside the tower enables visitors to climb to the top.
The tower was originally 45 m (148 ft) high. However, over the centuries a number of earthquakes caused significant damage to the structure. The last major earthquake in the 15th century destroyed the top half of the tower, reducing it to its current height of 25m (82 ft). In the early 1900s, Russian immigrants to the area used some of the bricks from the tower for new building projects. A renovation project was carried out in the 1970s to restore its foundation and repair the west-facing side of the tower, which was in danger of collapse.
Balasagun was founded by the Sogdians, a people of Iranian origin and the Sogdian language was still in use in this town until the 11th century.
This 12th century church is unusual in that it lies in the centre of neolithic earthworks. It fell into disuse in the 17th centtury but today the ruins are very popular with photographers especially with those photographing star trails.
The 17th Century Grade II Listed Carpenter's Cottage on Herepath in Avebury in Wiltshire.
Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury. The monument is vast and consists of several smaller sites of varying dates. The earliest of these, the earthworks, dates to between 3400 and 2625 BC. Later additions include a henge and several stone circles. Starting in around the 14th century, locals began dismantling the stone circles for one reason or another: to clear land, to provide material for other building projects, or simply to efface a pagan monument.
Knowlton Church with frost and colour at sunrise this morning
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The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis’s army (the second of the war) prompted the British government to eventually negotiate an end to the conflict.
The Confederates inside Fort Donelson's earthworks stayed in attractive little cabins like this. During the battle in mid-February 1862, soldiers on both sides slept in the earthworks without fires, and sometimes without adequate clothing.
This is a reconstructed cabin.
Iron age camp. Around 2,800 ybp
River Nar by the Icknield Way.
Norfolk. England.
The site is on the grounds of Narborough Hall (400 ybp)
Taken from an entrance in the earthwork circle. The walled settlement curves its circle off to the right to arrive behind the tripod. The oval shape is about 150 by 132m. The banks are made of chalk rubble. Potentially still in use into the early Saxon period.