The Ancient Landmarks of Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire; a Long Barrow and Some Wild Animals
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2023
- I apologise for not posting for a while, I have been under the weather and lost my mojo. I am now back however, with an exciting walk in (and above) a Coombe in Gloucestershire in the parish of Wotton-Under-Edge. The countryside hereabouts is attractive and has been since at least Neolithic times. There are two long barrows on the plateau above Wotton, Bronze Age barrows, a Roman town and down next to the village a Roman Villa. But for this journey i am, as ever, going to use an Anglian charter from the Sawyer database of Anglo-Saxon charters. This one is S467 and can be found here: esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter...
The walk is about six miles and I hope you enjoy watching the baby coots, hare and baby ducklings.
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I'm playing catch-up with videos so only got to this now. Great intro! Very dramatic and enjoyed the wildlife shots. Thanks for more insight into place name interpretation!
I am that pub bore: oh my god, place name interpretation. I’m glad you a enjoyed the wildlife, I enjoy stumbling into wild animals even more than Bronze Age barrows. Thanks for watching.
@@AllotmentFox not a pub bore at all, I very willingly tune into this!
How you taunt us - what was the row about?!
Lovely country there and your explanations of the names as fascinating as ever.
i'm going back for a farm open day, so i'll leave it, if you don't mind: i'd rather relax than start round two. There is a load of Roman stuff here. i was looking at the satellite map and next to one of the barrows was some nice crop marks. Celtic fields, says I. Checks the heritage environment record and it is an entire Roman town with a field name of 'chessels' which is a word still used in the West Country for stones or cobbles. 'Ceosel' in Old English. A Dorset villa is also in a field called Chessels. Thanks for watching!
@@AllotmentFox understood re row. Discretion will be observed.
I think I have encountered that chessels word before. How tantalising that these names live on alluding to the long-buried Roman structures.
These Roman small towns are seemingly cropping up everywhere. It does make me wonder about the population size in those far distant times.
Enjoy the farm open day!
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