My interest in Iron Age Hill Forts has been rekindled. After Eggardon, next to receive the Royal Visit was Maiden Castle near Dorchester. This is the largest such fort in Europe and I had never seen it before. Its scale is truly awesome; I was struck by the similarity between the man-made chalk landscape of the castle [the photo is of one of the earth banks built around the castle] and the natural chalk landscapes of the Wolds in Yorkshire and the Dorsetshire downs.
The location of this magnificent fort adjacent to the mundanity of the Dorchester by-pass has been further bizzared by the toy-town development of Prince Charles' Poundbury project which lurks surreally on the horizon.
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