In an effort to adjust back to life in Blighty I’ve looked for similarities between life in Valencia, Spain and Tamworth, UK to little success. I’ve had to delve into the history books again to see if I could find anything similar and woe betold, there was a(sort of) bull ring in Tamworth just like [...]
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Bullrings in Tamworth
Posted in earthwork, Musings on May 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Victorian railway ruin
Posted in earthwork on April 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Close to the wreck of Ashlands farm in a landscape of wrecks is another wreck, stuck for close to centuries on a curve of the river Anker, an overgrown mound with a blue brick ruin of one half of a Victorian railway bridge beneath it´s overgrowth. It´s the most prominent remain of a stretch of [...]
Offlow continued……..
Posted in earthwork, tagged dissappeared, earthworks on November 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Got some info to add to the post on the Offlow tumulus on the borders of Tamworth Timehikes. Staffordshire County Council HER(Historic Environment Record) kindly sent me the report on the site. Most of the info is from the early 20th century, here it is below: Well can solve the mystery of its dissappearance. Like [...]
Tamworth´s Anglo Saxon defences
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged Anglo-Saxon, dissappeared, earthworks, major sites, Tamworth on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ok back in business and straight into the heart of the metropolis of Tamworth, or at least round the edges of the centre to have a look at the Anglo-Saxon to medieval defences that once surrounded Tamworth. Witness the Fitness, Abe and Ernst are back in training This post is riding the wave of Anglo-Saxon [...]
ELFORD LOW(AKA ROBIN HOOD´S BUTT) AND BEYOND
Posted in earthwork, tagged earthworks, elford, rivers on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post has the particularity(is that a word! it sounds Spanglish to me )that will probably be not much longer than the title. The previous post about Robin Hood´s Butts refers to Elford Lowe a probable bronze age barrow, located by farm of the same name. The other butt mentioned, Wigginton butt (2 miles away) [...]
ROBIN HOOD´S BUTT
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged abe and ernst, earthworks, elford, robin Hood on October 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This will get the American tourists coming in, come to Tamworth and see Robin Hood’ s Butt! Well according to history of the town and castle of Tamworth, by Charles Ferrers Raymond Palmer, 1845 they were located nearby in Elford and Wigginton. I´ll stop going on and leave pasted below this extract from the remarkable [...]
GOLD’S CLUMP, HINTS
Posted in earthwork, tagged earthworks, hints, treasure on October 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If there´s a candidate for hordes of treasure hunters descending on a place in the area, it´s got to be the circular mound called Gold´s clump, overlooking the village of Hints, next to the roman A5. Thats not to advocate treasure hunting and wanton destruction of sites, but the idea of treasure does seem to [...]
OFFLOW
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged dissappeared, earthworks, map studies on October 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After my curiosity was awakened by Bill´s comment about Offlow, I decided to embark on this post about Offlow, although it´s a little further out than the remit of this blog. The rule of thumb is basically if you can hike there and back from Tamworth, or more specifically Leyfields within a day then it’s [...]
WIGGINTON PARK: REAL DEEP
Posted in earthwork, Wigginton Park, tagged deepmaps, earthworks, ridge and furrow, Tamworth, voyeur, Wigginton park on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a bit of explaining of the sub-heading ” landscape history voyeurism” before I get deeper into Wigginton park´s past. All this as the title suggests has something of voyeurism about it. The obsession with uncovering the landscape, sneaking around has definitely got something of the perv about it. Even the action of nosing around [...]
