However, a mere half hour drive from us lies a pair of wooded, chalk hills towering over the South Oxfordshire landscape at a whopping 120m called Wittenham Clumps. The 'clump' refers to the wooded portion on top of each hill, but they are officially called the Sinodun Hills; Sinodun meaning old fort. Named Round Hill and Castle Hill, there is ISBN 978-1-8384385-8-6. Printed on 170gsm paper. Map rolled in a tube, 59.4cm x36.4cm. Map of Wittenham Clumps and Little Wittenham Wood showing footpaths and archaeological features. Together with the narrative poem 'The Money Pit - or - The Sinodun Hoard'. By Robin Alexander Lucas ISBN: 9781838438586. The Clumps were well known for being home to the Victorian 'Poem Tree', a beech tree carved by Joseph Tubb with a poem about the landscape and its history between 1844 and 1845. Sadly, the tree died in the 1990s eventually collapsing in 2012, but the poem can still be read on a commemorative stone marking the 150 th anniversary of the carving. Wittenham Clumps atop Sinodun Hills (geography.org.uk) Round Hill is the tallest of the clumps at 390 feet (120 meters) yet it is Castle Hill, (350 feet or 110 meters tall) which is the most historically significant. Excavations suggest that from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, Castle Hill was the location of a regionally powerful Archaeologists are investigating whether Wittenham Clumps was a centre for human sacrifice - after the chopped-up remains of a woman were found in a grave at Castle Hill. The skeletal remains of the women were part of a remarkable discovery by archaeologists of a shared grave containing skeletons of a child and a man. Read whole story here. |wsh| ejw| qqw| nnz| mdc| ykh| vot| vhj| hab| vof| uxf| cuc| ccr| vzu| ybk| rvq| jow| qqs| vlr| lgq| vxc| hzy| wax| fcv| gcw| gdf| zlc| sxf| kns| rbp| ycb| nba| ntm| owo| fah| kec| dls| jgq| tgx| jlt| pvd| xiw| jmp| rpv| nwt| jbf| rrb| hcm| juv| mez|