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I loved this! I lived in Warminster for 20 years (very familiar with these hills and the surrounding countryside) and I still don’t live far away now…..and visiting Iron Age Hillforts everywhere was my lockdown hobby….so this podcast and channel is a real treat! Also…..you’ve never been up Cley Hill? 😱😱😱

I was born and brought up in Beckhampton and this was my playground. So good to hear about it and see it again after many years, thanks.

Many thanks to local historian David Carson MBE. Very enjoyable presentation and learned a lot about your beautiful countryside.💜💐

Tolkein's Shire.

I have never drawn a connection between a turnstyle at say a football stadium, and the style on a footpath before! Fascinating.

David Carson is quite a resource, a local, well read, and alive to his sense of place.

You can tell he's a farmer, casually sits down with his back to some bullocks!

Great to hear water being raised. Personally I suspect these hilltop sites were municipal resources. Mustering yards and tithe gathering facilities. Markets and events spaces. Over hundreds of years they would become redoubts for herding livestock into during times of war, but not exactly fortresses. Watch from 36 minutes in the following video. It reveals how these ramparts evolved from wattle enclosures over a great span of time. czcams.com/video/sRDfDIyjwz8/video.htmlsi=tJIvLlFqpameBh6z

I now live in Western Australia, videos like this make me SO homesick!

Pewsey is a lovely area, I spent my school hols in the 50s & 60s in Eastern Royal with my great Aunt, fond memories of her old thatched cottage near the ford, loved every minute of it.

This is excellent. Really interested and incredibly well produced.

My view is that Wansdyke is actually contemporaneous with Avebury. Nothing to do with the Anglo-Saxons or even the Celtic pre-Roman tribes. And was self evidently a semi-defensive boundary marker, just like Offa's dyke. There are people who believe that it's a canal. Even though the topography of it goes up and down. So without the benefit of locks to bring the level of the water along the 'canal' up and down (something the Victorian engineers went to great pains to deal with at Foxton Locks), how did the water in it go uphill and downdale???? Utter rubbish! That whole area is truly stunning. I'd love to live there somewhere.

Thank you for a superb presentation. It has quite rejuvenated my dormant interest in local history - as a culmination of which all history is formed and which, in turn, reflects the ‘bigger picture.’ Everywhere has its stories. It’s a pity not all are investigated and published so well. Again, many thanks.

Hi. Did the UCL archeology project determine any dates for The Wansdyke at all? I cannot seem to locate much online. Great video and thanks in advance!

I do also note that most OAA's are the bits that aren't of use to landowners (e.g. steep). Not a problem, just an observation.

Its crazy, there are so many examples of these islands, thank you for highlighting the problem 😊

Beautiful countryside

Thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the home of my ancestors.

wonderful little program.. I have always been interested in the little ancient trackway below scrathbury Hillfort and Middle hill.. There is a ditch 2 sets of mud ramparts.. I also wound what i suspect is a piece of curved metal with a hole in it and through the hole appears to be some wire .. ancient uneven wire.. I will be taking it to the local history society. You should come down here sometime ..

Brilliant film, thanks for sharing it.

Thank you so much for this wonderful video of what is Sacred Lands in Pewsey Vale. Wiltshire is my favourite place in the world. Its just got so much history and in such glorious countryside.

loved the stone in the floor of the church. great video and I enjoyed watching the whole thing.

hi, great video, have climbed both these mountains in 1964 as children,great fun when getting caught in the clouds that used to hang around,we also used to take my uncles small motor boat to the base of the mountains, really great times

Showed this film to my wife who was brought up in Stanton St Bernard (we married at the church) and attended Alton Barnes school and church. It's a beautiful part of the UK, so full of history. All too often one doesn't appreciate the places you grew up until much later in life.

Thanks, this was such a goldmine of information on subjects I find fascinating in this area, and really well presented!

Very nice Glyn. Having just walked a section of the Wansdyke (poss 'Woden's Dyke') starting & finishing in Bishops Canning, the aerial shots were great to see as puts it in context with the landscape. A Land rover is cheating though!

This is a beautiful piece of work and highly informative. My ancestors were agricultural labourers in the Vale in the 18th and 19th centuries, and some of them were involved in and punished for machine breaking. Congratulations and thanks for sharing this.

Fantastic video, great combination of the video / drone shots with explanation from an expert who can put the landscape and people who would have lived in this area into context. Wondered whether it would add to the podcasts, a resounding yes!! Will depend on the subject as to how impactful videos will be.

Absolutely wonderful film - I really enjoyed it and learned a lot - thank-you

Great video and aerial film. Amazing to see the earthworks - all that digging! Lovely majestic yew trees at the church, we have quite a few here in Dorset in churchyards. Thanks, and great history talk.

The England of my imagination. Hope you can preserve it!

stunning shots!

I really enjoyed that, thank you.

Much enjoyed this - and many happy memories from the not quite so distant past :) Thank you!

Tremendous!

Very interesting! Just had to subscribe. 👍

Beautiful work!

Last time I came here was in thick mist. Soon as I went down it cleared!

Amazing film...

Hi, I was wondering if I could use some of this footage in my Student Documentary?

I was up there on my birthday in October! Could not see a thing mist and rain

I had no idea it was so large!