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Edited Aug 07, 2017, 20:28
Re: Guardian article by Hugh Thomson
Aug 07, 2017, 20:20
A Guardian article by Hugh Thomson - who wrote The Green Road Into The Trees a few years back. Worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/aug/07/walking-ancient-hillforts-wiltshire-downs-england-atlas-of-hillforts?CMP=share_btn_fb

"They stand in a clear line along the Wiltshire Downs facing north: perhaps facing an enemy whose identity we do not know. In the bright sunshine of late spring, I could see the hillforts stretching away along the escarpment – Barbury, then Liddington, and finally Uffington, with its famous chalk white horse. They may have been begun in the bronze age, but reached their apogee in the iron age, in the first millennium BC ... "
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