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      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...

    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....

    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...

    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...

    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...

    “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...

    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....

    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....

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...

https://youtu.be/qyoUG8u8AdA   Grimspound is an amazing Bronze Age settlement located on Dartmoor in Devon. It sits 450 m above sea level and covers an area of around 4 acres (16,000...

https://youtu.be/Ve6tq2YBVuQ   With the lack of historical records concerning most castles in Hertfordshire, it may be possible to gain some information regarding the owners and builders by looking into who...

https://youtu.be/9ogH1rtHhkY Ludgate was one of the main thoroughfares into London, in fact the main one from the west of the country. In the past it was believed to have been...

https://youtu.be/_WBli_JrxWs   Whitehawk Hill Camp is a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure near Brighton, on the chalk downs. It stands 121 m above sea level and measures 290 m x 213 m...