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Uffington - Whitehorse Hill,  Oxfordshire uffington-diagram.JPG (9193 bytes)


Click on photos to enlarge. Notes in italics from Berkshire by Nikolaus Pevsner (1966) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Whitehorse Hill above Uffington Dscn0648-u1-540.jpg (31190 bytes) Closer view of the ancient white horse (really needs to be seen from the air - could the ancients fly?)
It is the only undoubted prehistoric hill figure in England. ... Probably cut in C1 and may have served as a tribal emblem.
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View to west from just below white horse. The hollow below is known as The Manger. Dscn0619-u1-540.jpg (21768 bytes) View to north from just below white horse - showing mound: This very large circular mound is probably the motte of a motte and bailey castle. Dscn0620-u1-540.jpg (27065 bytes)
 

 

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