Arundel Castle from the train. Arundel isn’t in either Hampshire or Dorset, so why have I posted it? Well, it was the first photo from the selection that appealed to me, and I don’t think I’ve used it before.
I have to be honest with you, I pretty much can barely wait to get to Dorset. Mainly of course, proximity to my side of the family, but also because of the county itself. The comparison with Dorset is in terms of ancient sites, by which I mean neolithic, not medieval.
As far as I can determine, if there were to be a comparison, it appears that Hampshire seems to have just a few ancient sites, whereas Dorset has hundreds of them. I have a personalised map, it shows a small part of Dorset, the gird squares on my map represent a mile, so one square equals one square mile. There are very few squares on my version of the map which don’t have a tumuli
Now this is important to the the book idea I wrote about last night. Why is that? you might ask, well I will tell you, with that number of ancient features you can put a ruler on the map and draw a line that will cross at least three features, meeting for my needs, if not strictly in accordance with any definition at least approximately that of a Ley Line. I’m going to need Ley Lines, lots of them, in my book.
Are you becoming more intrigued? I hope so, the only problem is you have to wait until I get there!
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