Hollingbury Fort again

From the eastern gateway and looking slightly north of east, we look over the golf course (don't ask which hole that is) and across Coldean with the new football stadium looming up in the mist beside the road to Lewes.

The eastern gateway

Approaching the Hollingbury hill fort from the east means climbing a steep hill. In the Iron Age, this would no doubt have been cleared of the bushes and trees which are there now and an attacker would have been presented with a view of an impressive gateway. The posts on top of the rampart are actually concrete-filled steel pipes marking some of the original post holes.

Looking north

The view to the north from the western rampart of Hollingbury Fort. The woods in the middle distance are Stanmer Woods and you can just make out the Upper Lodges of Stanmer Park towards the left-hand end of the woods. The road you can see leads past the Upper Lodges to Ditchling Beacon, the high point on the Downs in the distance.

Hollingbury Fort - 2

The western ditch and rampart.

Hollingbury Fort

The western entrance to what locals usually (and mistakenly) call the Roman camp.

Sea view

Well, it would be a sea view if it weren't for the mist. We have had quite a lot of mist and fog during the last week although this morning is much brighter. This is looking across Brighton from the Roman camp.

New Year's reflections

The thawing snow and ice left puddles in the woods.