Moody Pictures of Lamberts Castle

Sorry, it was a bit overcast this afternoon, with a Haar coming in off the sea.







The Marshwood Vale, this was Thomas Hardy's Vale of the Small Dairies.









This Village should amuse Dave & Penny, its called Fishpond's Bottom

 

great pics. but how did you dare get that close to a bull/ock?

 

Cheers RR,

It's a young girly moo moo, she was not bothered by me, they see loads of walkers up there, although she didn't want to be stroked.

Not like the lamb with its eyes shut, let me tickle its ears, scratch its head & chin for about 5 minutes, then went Baalistic when it opened its eyes & saw I wasn't its Mum

 

oh, that must be a belly button I saw, then

 

She only needs a trainer Bra

 

Lovely pics Zigs..........but where's the castle?

 

Long since rotted away Sheal, its a series of defensive banks and ditches that would have been surrounded by a wooden fence on the top of the banks.

The interior would have sheltered many wooden roundhouses, the community would take the animals out to graze the wildwood in the day but bring them back inside at night as the valleys were not a safe place to be. Full of Wolves, Bears & most deadly, Mosquitoes carrying malaria.

 

Are we talking motte and bailey then?

 

Nice landscapes Ziggy, particularly Marshwood vale.

 

No, long before that Sheal, about 4,000 years before.

 

Just a tad older than I thought then.

 

Only a bit

Annoying thing is that the local stone is a chert, very simliar to flint, so its impossible to tell the naturally broken stone from the manufactured tools unless you get something blindingly obvious.

They didn't seem to use the local stone for tools, stuff i've found has been imported from up Salisbury way.

 

Great pictures, and i was going to ask the same thing

 

Did Fishponds Bottom amuse you?