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Gosport's Medievel Motte & Bailey
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Motte (South Side)
The South side is slightly damaged. Probably from the removal of trees |
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Motte (South Side)
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Bailey
You can see the Motte coming down on the right hand side and the fence on the left following the Bailey |
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Motte & Bailey
Motte with part of the Bailey in the forground. The Bailey is South East of the Motte. |
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Bastion #1 of Gosport Ramparts (looking South East)
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Bastion #1 (Looking North West)
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The Sluice Gate Area
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Cross section and end of the Ramparts with Brick support to the rear.
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Information Sign. Click twice to zoom in close to read.
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Gosport 1759
You can clearly see the ramparts in Red. The rampart photos above,(although reconstructed in 1802-1803), are taken from the very South East end. |
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Gosport 1791
The fortifications of Gosport and Portsmouth are highly visible. |
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Gosport 1826
You can see the River Alver running parallel with the coast. |
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Gosport 1810 -1850 Series
Gosport railway station and lines are visible here, but the lines to Stokes Bay and Lee-on-the Solent are not there yet. |
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Gosport 1920
The railway lines to Stokes Bay and Lee-on-the -Solent are visible here. Palmerston's Forts are clear to see as well as the Stokes Bay moat. |
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Fort Elson
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Fort Brockhurst
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Fort Rowner
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Fort Grange
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Fort Gomer
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Number Two Battery
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Fort Gilkicker
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Fort Monckton
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Fort Blockhouse
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Browndown Battery
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Clifton Down Observatory
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Stone Rampart
This shows a cross section of one of the stone ramparts of the Iron age hillfort at Clifton |
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Defensive entrance
This shows the defensive entrance to the Iron age hillfort at Clifton |
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Over the gorge
View across the Avon gorge to the other Iron age hillfort of Stokeleigh |
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Clifton suspension bridge
View from Clifton camp |
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Ashen Hill/Priddy barrows on the horizon
Motley crew looking for some evidence of burial |
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There is a Messiah
Paul Driscoll shares his knowledge on the top of a barrow |
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Ashen Hill/Priddy Barrows
Well, three of them anyway |
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The first three barrows at Ashen Hill/Priddy (looking East)
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View from Ashen Hill/Priddy to another barrow cemetery
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Cheddar Gorge
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Cheddar man
Paul Driscoll after a marathon five hour lecture |
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Inside Gough's cave at Cheddar
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Entrance to Aveline's hole
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Inside Aveline's hole
Is this the queue for the toilet? |
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Dorchester Roman town house
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Hypocaust floor
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Hypocaust floor through stoke hole
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Mosaic floor
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Is it a foot pool or a stoke hole???
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Maumbury rings
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Maumbury rings bank
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Maumbury rings interior
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Maumbury rings bank
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Maumbury rings interior and bank
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Maiden castle looking South East
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Miaden castle West entrance from inside
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Maiden castle Roman temple
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Maiden castle East entrance from inside
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Maiden castle East entrance from the top bank
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Maiden castle top bank
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Maiden castle Southern ramparts
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Maiden castle ramparts and ditches
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More of Maiden castle's ramparts
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Maiden castle ditch
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Downend Motte & Bailey
Somerset |
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Downend Motte
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Downend Earthworks
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Aller Church
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Anglo-Saxon Font
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King Alfred stained Glass in Aller church
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Norman Era Archway at Aller
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Portchester Castle Landgate
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Norman keep
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Norman keep & Roman walls
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View of outer bailey from keep
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View from keep
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King Richard II Palace
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Church of St Mary
Spot the markings on the wall indicating where the part of the Augustinian monastery joined. |
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Entrance to church
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View from the church to the keep
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Inside of one of the remaining bastions
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Watergate
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South wall from outside
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Front wall from inside
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Exterior of inner bailey including gatehouse & drawbridge
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Castle Neroche outer earthwork
Possibly pre-historic |
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View from Castle Neroche bailey
View point of a Norman soldier looking down upon a Saxon attacker? |
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Castle Neroche Motte
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Stuart on the Motte
Stuart parting with his wisdom on the top of Castle Neroche motte. |
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View from the motte looking down into ditch back to the bailey
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Stowey Motte & Bailey Castle
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Earthworks on the top of the motte
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Lower level of the keep
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Side of motte and bailey
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Ditch between motte and bailey
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Avonside Wharf earthworks
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Old railway workshop building
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Avonside railway buildings
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More earthworks at Avonside Wharf
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View of Avonside Wharf's biuldings
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Bristol's old port
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Old Architecture, new uses
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Old Jacobean house
The Llandoger Trow Public House. |
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The Granary
Fantastic Bristol-Byzantine architecture from 1869 |
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Architectural archways of The Granary
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Royal Fort House, Bristol
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Setting out grids for surveying
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Setting up the gradiometer
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Trying it on
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Resistance survey in action
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