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Prehistoric ditch and bank, enclosing what was once an ancient settlement on Priest Hill, Roxburghshire, Scotland canmore.org.uk/site/67935/priest-hill
Earthworks....
Voir / see : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Art
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthwork
Cette photo a été prise au Yellowstone National Park...Il s'agit d'un phénomène d'activité volcanique typique de Yellowstone. Les substances chimiques émergeant de la Terre créent de véritables oeuvres d'art abstrait.
Luftbild von den Bewuchsmerkmalen eines 7000 Jahre alten Kalenderbaus, ein Kultplatz aus der Jungsteinzeit
« Au coeur de toute beauté, il y a quelque chose d'inhumain » Albert Camus
«At the heart of beauty, lies something inhuman » Albert Camus
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Fort Bayard was an earthwork fort constructed in 1861 northwest of Tenleytown in the District of Columbia as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War. It never faced major opposition during the conflict and was decommissioned following the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Named after Brigadier General George Dashiell Bayard, who was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the site of the fort is in Boundary Park, located at the intersection of River Road and Western Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and is maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. No trace of the fort remains, though a marker commemorating its existence has been erected by the Park Service. (Source: Wikipedia)
The “beach” at Nudgee Beach in Brisbane’s inner northern Bayside suburbs consist of sand mixed with muddy silt from the Brisbane Diver which empties into Moreton Bay less than a kilometre away.
Despite being a bit sticky in parts, many families spend time roaming the tidal flats and mangroves when the tide is out, especially on weekend afternoons.
Heavy equipment is required to get the sand moving though. I wish I had one of those when I was young!
A recent trip to the West Country saw a wonderful winter landscape as they had had quite a bit of snow a couple of days before. These are some earthworks at Stonehenge.
Aerial view of Fotheringhay Castle earthwork remains situated beside the River Nene in Northamptonshire. The place of Mary Queen of Scots last imprisonment and execution in 1587.
A cold dull walk at Toms Hill.
This embankment in the woods has intrigued me for a long time. It encloses a rectangular section of fairly mature woodland. So what is it? Foundations for an old building? Some kind of training ground legacy from the 1st or 2nd World War? Something much older? Where’s Time Team when you need them?
More mecha is on its way, enjoy this for now ;)
Elaborate earthworks scatter the Ohio countryside, built an estimated two thousand years ago by unknown tribes of Native Americans. Many of the mounds were hundreds of feet long, and several stories tall. Some of these mound groups were expertly laid out in shapes that often mimicked celestial coordinates. Though the official name of the ancient peoples has been lost to time, the given name âHopewellâ comes from Capt. Mordecai Hopewell, the farmer who owned some land where part of the mound cities were discovery. Itâs thought that the Hopewell people utilized these plots of land for ceremonial, public spaces, coordinating celestial events, or as burial grounds.
The mounds were constructed with careful layering of alternating clays, sand, and soil, which indicate that there was much thought in the process of creation. Beneath those layers, archaeologists discovered post holes in a plastered clay floor, believed to have been to hold the walls of a building or structure. It seems that the buildings were deconstructed and mounds were laid in their place after their purpose was served. Large amounts of artifacts were found buried in the collected earth, most of them were intricate works of art used for ceremonial purpose such as statues, effigies, and pottery. There was little indication of people living amongst the mound cities but there was evidence of hundreds of cremated remains. Perhaps it was all a way to celebrate the lives of the people who live here before.
Knowlton Church and Earthworks at dusk.
3000BC Henge with 12th Century Church Ruins.
I also made a short film here: youtu.be/BU4zT2fvCc0
Ruxox, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, 7 May 2020
Ruxox Farm is a typical 1850s Duke of Bedford Model Farm.
However the site is a Scheduled Monument whose history goes back a long way.
Dunstable Priory established a moated monastic grange (farm) here in 1150. It supplied food and other products to the Priory and to the Church and poor of Flitwick until the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540.
There is a large, 'D'-shaped moat enclosing an island measuring at least 250m by 160m. The moat ditch is dry and measures 10-15m wide and up to 3m deep. In the fields to the north of the farm the moat has been backfilled, although its line is discernible as slight linear hollows. The island is generally flat but large fragments of stone scattered near the edges of the moat provide visible evidence that stone buildings once occupied the island edge.
Excavations in the 1950s and 1960s revealed traces of an Iron Age settlement and Romano-British settlement of some kind extending from 1st to late 4th centuries AD. These demonstrate that the moat was constructed on top of the remains of a much earlier settlement.
An Iron Age urn was found nearby when the A507 was built in 1983 and fragments of an Iron Age decorated mirror were found in 1998.
The name “Ruxox” comes from the Saxon “Hroc’s Oak”