Chitra and I With Lashings of Summer Meadows: Ceatta’s Brook (“Ceattan Broc”)

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Chitra and I With Lashings of Summer Meadows: Ceatta’s Brook (“Ceattan Broc”)

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Ай бұрын

Morningside Meadows near Wootton Bassett. In search of Ceatta’s Brook (“Ceattan Broc”). 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 #morningsidemeadows

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@chitraprints Ай бұрын

I love English meadows! So glorious! For me it the best thing about the landscape here.

@AllotmentFox Ай бұрын

I must thank you for wearing such inappropriate footwear that we diverted to find it. Your wellies are under the stairs.

@WC21UKProductionsLtd Ай бұрын

“Boring history” and “terrible man”, all amateur antiquarians can relate to this. Nice find with the brook and good to see that it has survived.

@AllotmentFox Ай бұрын

It’s all show. Only the other day she was reading to me passages from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

@WC21UKProductionsLtd Ай бұрын

@@AllotmentFox gosh, you are a lucky man!

@JimBagby74 Ай бұрын

Slightly off topic, but the hares are out in force this year. We have boom and bust years and this one is a boom. That of course means the owls are patrolling by day and night, and I'm talking about big'uns. The size of a toddler with a wingspan a good meter and a half. And when you walk up on one, and they spin that neck and look you in the eye, you can't help but get a tingle. Bizarrely human, these things. No wonder that people all over the world attach special significance to them.

@AllotmentFox Ай бұрын

Blimey, the owls don’t hang around to look at you here. I’ve caught one on camera twice in 400 videos and one was a blur racing off to kill something. I had one jump out of the ditch of the Wansdyke at me which would’ve made great footage if I’d had my wits about me to do so. C’mon Jim, does us a video so we can see them.

@JimBagby74 Ай бұрын

Perhaps I will. An update- one of the electrical pylons at the park had a flock of vultures all over it. Also quite massive. Must have been 50-odd of them. Like a collection of black bin bags. They are bin bags in their own way. It’s their job.