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Blog – Segedunum: Wallsend
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Blog – Segedunum: Wallsend

    Wallsend, Tyne-and-Wear, Northumberland. OSGB - NZ 30004 66067, NZ 30037 65992.   The site is located at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall and guards the River Tyne....
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Blog – Alfred’s Castle; Alfred’s Camp; Ashbury; Ashbury Castle; Ashberry; Ashberry Castle; Ashberry Camp.
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Blog – Alfred’s Castle; Alfred’s Camp; Ashbury; Ashbury Castle; Ashberry; Ashberry Castle; Ashberry Camp.

    Ashbury Estate, Ashbury, Oxfordshire (Originally situated in Berkshire). OSGB – SU 2773 8223. Scheduled Monument. Monument Number 225540. National Trust Property.   Iron Age univallate hill fort, Roman...
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Roslin Castle; Rosslyn Castle
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Roslin Castle; Rosslyn Castle

    Roslin, Midlothian. NT 27440 62701. Scheduled Ancient Monument. Category A Listed Building.   The castle sits on the northern bank of the River Esk on Roslin Glen cliffs....
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Pendragon Castle: Castle of Mallerstang: Mallerstang Castle
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Pendragon Castle: Castle of Mallerstang: Mallerstang Castle

  PRIVATE PROPERTY   Mallerstang Dale, Cumbria OSGB – NY 781025 Grade I Listed Building   Fortified Tower. Pele Tower. Situated on a spur overlooking the River Eden to its...
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Oldbury Hill: Oldbury Camp: Oldbury Hillfort
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Oldbury Hill: Oldbury Camp: Oldbury Hillfort

  Oldbury, Ightam, Kent. OSGB – TQ582562 Scheduled Monument. Monument Number 409479   A multivallate, Iron Age hillfort/camp, roughly diamond shaped. Contour hillfort covering approximately 50 hectares. It is the...
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Ramsey Abbey; Booth’s Hill; Ramsey the Rich; Ramsey the Golden.
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Ramsey Abbey; Booth’s Hill; Ramsey the Rich; Ramsey the Golden.

      Ramsey, Cambridgeshire. OSGB – TL 2918 8503 Scheduled Ancient Monument Monument Number 871276 Gatehouse Grade I Listed Building.   Sitting on what was once an island in...
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Bar Hill Fort/Barr Hill/LACONICUM
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Bar Hill Fort/Barr Hill/LACONICUM

    Antonine Wall Twechar, East Dunbartonshire NS707759   The site sits 30 meters south of the Antonine Wall and is recorded as being the highest Roman fort in Scotland....
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Gaer Penrhos/Caer Penrhos/Castell Penrhos/Castell Cadwaladr/Castle of Llanrhystud/Llan Rhystud.
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Gaer Penrhos/Caer Penrhos/Castell Penrhos/Castell Cadwaladr/Castle of Llanrhystud/Llan Rhystud.

    Llanrhystud, Dyfed. Scheduled Ancient Monument. Monument Number CD094. PRIVATE PROPERTY.   The site overlooks the village and has views across the Ystwyth Valley and mountains as well as...
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Lodge Hill Camp: Lodge Farm: Lodge Wood
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Lodge Hill Camp: Lodge Farm: Lodge Wood

    Caerleon, Newport. Scheduled Monument. Iron Age Hillfort.   The hillfort is situated to the north of Caerleon and sits on a narrow ridge overlooking the River Usk, with...
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Lanchester Roman Fort: Longovicium Roman Fort: Longchestre
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Lanchester Roman Fort: Longovicium Roman Fort: Longchestre

    Lanchester, Durham. OSGB - NZ 159 469 Scheduled Monument. PRIVATE PROPERTY.   Lanchester its between the forts of Vindomora (Ebchester) and Vinovia (Binchester) 32 km south of Hadrian’s...
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Irton Hall, Cumbria
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Irton Hall, Cumbria

    “Thou standest a monument of strength sublime, A giant, laughing at the threats of time” (Jefferson 1842).     Irton-with-Santon, Eskdale, Cumbria. Grade II Listed Building.   The...
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Fort Amherst, Chatham, Kent
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Fort Amherst, Chatham, Kent

    Fort Amherst is part of the Brompton Lines, a defensive line of forts and batteries protecting Chatham Naval Dockyard, situated on the River Medway, from a landward attack....
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Hemingford Grey Moated Manor House
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Hemingford Grey Moated Manor House

    Grade 1 Listed Building. PRIVATE PROPERTY   The cherry trees were coming into blossom and full of birds too busy and independent to hang about waiting for crumbs....
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Deal Castle
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Deal Castle

  https://youtu.be/46PZQbk3yhI   TR 35 SE 6 Scheduled Monument The castle is designed in a double clover-leaf design.     It’s main role was to defended part of the Kent...
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Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
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Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire

  https://youtu.be/iEk5gwGVFf8   Located within the Honour of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, the castle is a Grade I Listed Building and a Scheduled Monument. If only they could speak……..this pile of ancient...
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Burghead Fort, Moray
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Burghead Fort, Moray

  https://youtu.be/Kn_f59CpDUA   The other names which I have uncovered and assigned to this site are The Burch Torridon Breidafiord Eccialsbacca Burgh Olim Narmin Ferna Corcach Burgus Bannatia Tamia alata...
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Pevensey Castle
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Pevensey Castle

  https://youtu.be/cVnK4F54A-k   Pevensey Castle once stood on a peninsular but due to silting the site now stands about 1.5 km back from the sea. It covers an area of...
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Dalton Tower; Dalton Castle
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Dalton Tower; Dalton Castle

  https://youtu.be/JIt-3pId4NU   Dalton Castle/Peel Tower is located at Dalton in Furness, Cumbria. It sits in the west side of the town near the entrance to St Mary’s Church. It...
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Wroxeter; Urioconion; Viroconion; Cornoviorum; Caer Guricon.
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Wroxeter; Urioconion; Viroconion; Cornoviorum; Caer Guricon.

https://youtu.be/ObyCFol4eg0   Located in Shropshire, this once bustling Roman town was the fourth largest in Roman Britannia, once covering around 63 ha, it was originally built as a fort which...
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The Shetland Islands
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The Shetland Islands

https://youtu.be/JWSIgN0Cvuo   There are about 15 islands which make up what is known today as the Shetland Islands. The old Norse name was Hjaltand, and it is not known what...
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