Wet Whittenham

Whittenham Clumps Rain makes useful marks

A wet Wednesday, as evidenced by the rain's contribution to this drawing. Again Rosie and I met up with cousin Wendy for a walk round the clumps.

To the left on the drawing is Castle Hill. Once up there we found the big uprooted tree on the south side of the woods. Its roots show sandy gravels that 'arrived there' during one of the earlier Ice Ages when these hills were under water. Since then erosion has since cut down through the landscape on either side of Castle Hill.

Castle Hill, I have also discovered  is Late Iron Age settlement and saved from Victorian destruction by General Pitt Rivers (1870). This set in play a national system to protect Ancient Monuments in Britain!  Good old Pitt Rivers.