Pre-history, according to my understanding, is what happened before written history. In my mind, I am trying to work out how Dorset has so much pre-history in comparison to Hampshire? Now that may be a misconception on my part, but when searching, many more instances of pre-historic features appeared in Dorset than in Hampshire.
On the other hand, Hampshire, particularly Winchester appear to have a lot of history, with many written records. I’ve been reading about some of the things that have been written down. One thing in particular piqued my curiosity, the names and titles given to the kings and the queens of England. For example, Eathelread the unready. Who was he, and why was he called unready?
It appears that at the time he was called unread, which meant ill advised, unread became unready. I hadn’t known that.
Winchester has played an important role in the history of both the county and the country. I feel the need to explore it a bit, but first, I wonder how far back Portsmouth goes – it’s a bit nearer home. Gosport is not anywhere near ancient.
The header picture? It’s of the clouds in this mornings sky, reflected in the waters of the Cockle Pond, which were still to the point of being mirror-like.
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