Cherbury in Charney Basset, Berkshire (“Cerenburhg”): an Iron Age Hillfort That Isn’t on a Hill

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Ай бұрын

Having bored even myself of Wiltshire I head out to God’s Own county-Berkshire. Except a Labour government gave this part of it to Oxford in 1974, let’s hope we don’t have another one of those. Congratulations to what should by now be the Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer, First Lord of the Treasury, working class hero and champion of the people. Honestly, I am pleased.
This walk is following the Saxon charter of Charney (Cern ieg, “Charn island”) up from the Ock (“Eoccen”) to the fort of Cherbury. I discuss its history and photograph some deer, jackdaws and butterflies.
These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.
But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.
#Archaeology #oldenglishcharters #antiquarians #historywalks #britishhistory #berkshire #hillforts

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@pwhitewick 29 күн бұрын

I went to an archaeological talk a while back on a specific subject. At least 40% of the discussion was on etymology of the surroundings and the huge context that gave the subject. Your videos really do highlight this!

@AllotmentFox 28 күн бұрын

They got it wrong in this case but the interpretation of charters and placenames only establishes a methodology in the twentieth century firstly in the 1920s with Grundy and Ekwall (and others) and then enters the English departments of universities in the 60s to the present with people like Margaret Gelling and the English Place Name Survey. On that basis I was a tad harsh. What we-us amateur antiquarians-can add to the equation is going out into the field, reappraising the mistakes of our forebears and peering at satellite photos and Lidar. Trying to catch out Grundy getting it wrong is an academic sport and there are quite a few academic papers that do this. I could volunteer to be a digger but there are plenty of those and few who peer at old charters. The instructions in the charter match exactly the current bounds of the parish which is surprising.

@pwhitewick 25 күн бұрын

@@AllotmentFox carry on... and some!! Admirable work.

@bristolveggiebeds5310 24 күн бұрын

Beautiful countryside and wildlife

@AllotmentFox 21 күн бұрын

The land is very much ripening unlike my squashes. How about you, is anything on your plot at the stage it should be in July?

@thebeatentrack156 25 күн бұрын

Northern Berkshire 😊 Ahh, wild oat picking, brings back memories of summers past 😊Great drone footage

@AllotmentFox 25 күн бұрын

Did they offer to pay you in cider?

@thebeatentrack156 24 күн бұрын

@@AllotmentFox Hahaha, no unfortunately 🤣

@tweedyoutdoors 25 күн бұрын

Lovely photography / videography as always. Is that Woody Nightshade at 1:04?

@AllotmentFox 25 күн бұрын

It is nightshade but I’ve never added the word woody to it. Rather, deadly is the word we add to the beg8nning where I come from. And there is some hemlock too, the tall umbellifer with the sprinkled purple spatter on the stems. I want to do something on ethno-botany but I suspect with examples like these it might be gruesome.