WILD CAMP ON A HILLFORT IN THE RAIN | CHANCTONBURY RING
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR THE HISTORY OF BOTH HILLFORTS IN THE VIDEO:
Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in the English county of West Sussex. A ridgeway, now part of the South Downs Way, runs along the hill. It forms part of an ensemble of associated historical features created over a span of more than 2,000 years, including round barrows dating from the Bronze Age to the Saxon periods and dykes dating from the Iron Age and Roman periods.
Consisting of a roughly circular low earthen rampart surrounded by a ditch, Chanctonbury Ring is thought to date to the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age. The purpose of the structure is unknown but it could have filled a variety of roles, including a defensive position, a cattle enclosure or even a religious shrine. After a few centuries of usage, it was abandoned for about five hundred years until it was reoccupied during the Roman period. Two Romano-British temples were built in the hill fort's interior, one of which may have been dedicated to a boar cult.
After its final abandonment around the late fourth century AD, the hill fort remained unoccupied save for grazing cattle until a mid-18th century landowner planted a ring of beech trees around its perimeter to beautify the site. They became a famous local landmark until largely being destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987. Periodic replanting on a number of occasions to replace old or destroyed trees has afforded archaeologists the opportunity to carry out a series of excavations which have revealed much about the history of the site.
Cissbury Ring is a hill fort on the South Downs, in the borough of Worthing, England, and about 5 kilometres (3 mi) from its town centre, in the county of West Sussex. It is the largest hill fort in Sussex, the second largest in England and one of the largest in Europe overall, covering some 60 acres (24 hectares). The earthworks that form the fortifications were built around the beginning of the Middle Iron-Age possibly around 250 BC but abandoned in the period 50 BC - 50 AD.
The site of the fort contains a Neolithic mine, one of the first flint mines in Britain. Around 200 shafts were dug into Cissbury hill over around 900 years of use. Shafts were up to 12 metres (39 ft) deep with 7 metres (23 ft) diameters at the surface. Up to eight galleries extended outwards from the bottoms of the shafts, often interconnecting with one another. There is concern that the site is being irreversibly damaged "by illicit use of metal detectors", police say.
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So, onto the walk and the wild camp. I was joined by Candice for this 10.5 mile route which started at the car park for Chanctonbury Ring, followed the uphill path beside the ring to meet the South Downs Way, which we followed for some time until we reached the foot of Cissbury Ring. We climbed up to that and stopped for a bit of lunch out of the wind before heading back down and continuing on with the walk all the way back to Chanctonbury Ring, where we swapped out our day walking packs for our wild camping kit and headed back up to the hillfort. At this point it started chucking it down and we even had some severe thunder and lightning. We had trouble finding the ring in the dark and the heavy rain so we opted for a spot in the woodland immediately next to the ring, set up and waited for our mystery guest to arrive and set up camp with us!
Once he arrived it was still raining for the rest of the night but it was much more enjoyable knowing we had someone else with us who knew the area!
A LINK TO OUR MYSTERY GUEST'S CHANNEL AND HIS VIDEO OF THE CAMP:
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"the crunchy with the smooth" love it
Well done Candice,it looked so cosy in there with the sound of rain......Will seems like a decent bloke he made me chuckle 👍
Thank you :)
Cheers Stephen 🐩
@@willstonvelo8100 poodle.....😄
Well done people for sticking it out with that weather... Got to say I love it when it chucks in down outside a tent.
PS. you can't beat camping in the ring. #Fnar
That did look like a Soggy Camp X Nice to see Will back Camping as well X Glad you took care of Candice. I hope you did treat her to a Full English Breakfast at a Cafe somewhere X Whatever doesn't Break you makes you Stronger. And you are all still smiling X Take Care and Keep Safe X
We went to Dock Cafe Tilbury I had chicken and pasta! Bless him he does look after me :) The South Downs are beautiful xx
Nothing more relaxing then rain on a tent. Keep it coming great vids
cheers pal.
A moist stop over Tom. Tell Candice that was 100% Effort and she can be proud of herself ok :) Cheers......Les
Fepowson! Thanks :)
Candice, You are most welcome :) Keep smiling............Les
Candice & Tom: Congratulations on your 1st Anniversary. Good wishes.........Les
Well done candice hope you feel a lot better now,great camp Tom and a good giggle with Phil and that rain always put a damper on things,take care,
Will lol not phill , although he will probably answer to that lol. Cheers pal.
Lol ,I thought you said Phil my mistake tom,
Thats ok mate no worries, gave us a laugh!
John p! Thank you! I did laugh you calling will phil lol
Who's Phil😂
Great Vid Tom despite the soggy weather , Glad Candice felt a bit better later on, Shows good character being able to spend a night under canvas in crappy weather. Will is as potty as you. ATB :)
Feeling much better thank you
Shame I had to work or I would have joined Will and finally met you
Looked like a good but very wet camp
Great video of wild camping on a hillfort in the rain in the woods nice and quiet camping in the woods nice one Tom enjoyed it
Great vid again, love the rain! What was that crawling over your mre?
Haha I don't know I'll have to watch it again lol. Cheers mate.
Thanks mate. I think it's a yellow ladybird, unsure if they're poisonous but I'm still here lol.
Banging 👍👍👍
thanks for watching!
tell Candise she's got my vote and hope she feels better soon
Thanks Kaylynn
Nice one 👍🏻👌
cheers fella.
The lovely Candice snoring I don't believe you,ladies don't snore! She did well in such nasty conditions and good to see her still smiling at the end.
she doesnt snore as much as me lol she farts more though! lol. shes a tough cookie, definitely got myself a keeper lol. cheers pal.
Great vid,hope Candice got better soon as possible
She's fine now thanks mate.
Nice video Tom and fair play to Candice for walking that distance with the lurgy. Did you film this last Saturday? I was camped out with Andy Kent Survival and Descattys by Coalhouse Fort and the weather was equally crap!
Yeah it was filmed last Saturday :)
brilliant video, don't ever change & go down commercial route 😊 Candice v brave 👍 thanku
Another cracking vid mate, kudos for Candice as well, don't think I could have climbed all those bloody hill while feeling under the weather... and also good to see you have trimmed your beard, or at least let Stevie Wonder had a swing at it lol.
cheers. the beard will be returning. i hate it like this. the barber wanted to have a go on it so i relinquished for a reduced price lol. fucking baby faced wanker lol.
Down near my neck of the woods I wanna do the whole of the south downs way winchester to Eastbourne in one stint with a few over nighters.👍
So do I mate actually. Let me know if you want a companion for it.
Tom,
I’m planning a hiking and camping trip on the Florida Trail, it will be about 1100 miles from big Cypress to fort Pickens and will take about 50 days to complete. It will be the wild camp of a lifetime. Would you be interested in coming with us if we can work out all of the details? don’t let the alligators, venomous snakes, leeches and malaria infested insects deter you. I will keep you informed as the logistics are worked out.
C
Thanks mate, but I'll pass as it's hard for me to get that amount of time booked off work. Also, I can't afford to lose clients. Sounds good though mate, good luck with it.
TOM OUTDOORS . Understood, Tom. Keep an eye out for our youtube posts.
Come on Tom a warning at 26:23 would have been nice now I have a well dodgy image of Will in my head. Keep the vid's coming
You obviously never saw the Dover wild camp with will lol. Cheers pal.
1:35 Always best to keep one's ring at the rear !!
You not doing Movember mate your tash last year was epic
I worked too hard on the beard, I refuse to get rid of it lol.
Candice you did excellent good stuff, and Tom i don't know if you have ever checked out Steve1989MREInfo
on here, he is from the US but he does some reviews of old mre's and eats them but it's quite a good watch.
ATB, James
Thanks mate. Yeah , I watch his stuff religiously lol.
Thank you :) plus I'm a big fan of Steve1989
you fancy Steve lol xx
yeah he is good, alot of it is his voice, ASMR style.