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  • The Rollright Stones

    The Rollright Stones

    I visited Oxfordshire’s Rollright Stones in late ’21, but here I am, writing the copy getting on for a year later. My memories are of getting to the site very early, but not quite early enough to avoid an immediate mad scramble to get the photography in as the sun was coming up. It’s a…

  • Pevensey Castle

    Pevensey Castle

    “We have castles within castles within castles”, says the helpful assistant on the door, proudly. Originally built around 290 AD by the Romans, the Normans added to the structure with a wooden fort in 1066, with a medieval stone keep within the roman walls added later. A Tudor gun emplacement was added in time for…

  • Old Sarum

    Old Sarum

    Old Sarum, the very first incarnation of Salisbury, and the very first location in our series. It’s the first as it’s where this idea was conceived, in the summer of 2019, on a ridiculously hot day with the kids in tow. Revisited a year later, the feelings were still there.