On 7th Oct 2020 4:23pm, Kaga simpson said:
It's been around forever, and the Domesday Book is in libraries for the last fifty years.
But cleverly written, the best I have seen also.
King Offa, Welsh Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, fond of ditches for they were also famous as a moat in those days. But the earthwork (bank) is 80 miles long with the ditch on the western side, Britain’s longest archaeological monument.
The Dyke Path runs for 177 miles. I was about to walk it in 2001 but was refused permission, because of Foot and Mouth, by J Saunders, Path Controller.
Not far from Chippenham, there's a long grassy bank. At one end it tapers down into the farmer’s field, the other end a passage that is a 6000 year old tomb, man-made - it's older than the Pyramids. Rituals and sacrifices made by residents over 200 generations ago.
Hi Kaga
I live in Chippenham, and am interested in where this bank, passage and tomb are, We are very fortunate to be close to some of the oldest, most interesting . sites in Britain, but the only tombs near here that I know of are Lugbury which is really just a shape at the side of a field alongside the Fosse Way, and the numerous barrows and tombs around Avebury, have I missed one??