Liddington Castle Iron Age Hill Fort, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

Liddington Castle is the highest point in the county of Wiltshire. It is south of Swindon, and is clearly visible on Google Maps Satellite view, east of the village of Chiseldon. It was probably abandoned when the Saxons invaded.
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The following notes are from YouTuber Mikesey1, who posted them on another Liddington video:-
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Liddington stood in a dark-age war-zone. At this time, the important British cities were at Cirencestor, Swindon & Bath, whilst the Saxons were in the Thames valley, below Oxford.
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Liddington stands on important trackways and roads; The Ermine way, going SE., and another Roman road going directly south, also the Iron-age 'Ridgeway' runs right under the lip of the fort. This fort stood on an important place which was vital to stemming the Saxon advance.
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Somewhere nearby, but probably not in the Fort itself, will be a mass burial pit, from the battle of Mount Badon.
The soil there is chalky, not acidic, so the remains will still be in situ when the site is discovered. The locations of the Saxons and the Britons during AD 499 indicate that the battle may have taken place at Liddington.
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Liddington would have been essential to halt the Saxon advance into Western England, what was to later become the Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
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This place is a sort of dark-age "spaghetti junction", and true to form, modern road planners built the M4 right alongside the castle.

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[bonnie43uk]

i hAve wonderful memories of Liddington Hill, in my teenage years i would ride up from Swindon, ..go to the highest point of the hill, take all my clothes off, think about Diana Dors very hard, and use my penis as a sundial, ..from the shadow cast, i could keep remarkably accurate time.

[Rearda]

You could have saved yourself all that trouble by using a twig.

[mikesey1]

Good notes :)

This video deserves to be looked at much more than it is..

Well done making it.

[notatnik150]

Try aspirin.

[mikesey1]

Diana Dors! Blimey, that dates him a bit :)

[mikesey1]

Well, you could always record it and send it to me to listen to!

Great to hear from you.

Mike.

[Rearda]

Yes, it's easier to credit oneself using a pseudonym. I might upload the track somewhere, but I don't think I'll be recording anything formal. My daughter records her own stuff - Christian indy (myspace 'theeveningservice') and I'm happy to bask in the reflected glory.

[mikesey1]

And I only just saw that you noted the singer on the video credits :(

*red face*

Mike.

[mikesey1]

You're a woman!!

I always have difficulty with unknown genders on YouTube!

Anyway, you've a superb voice, very sweet, perhaps with some professional training?

Love the song and maybe you would like to record that properly on a disc or whatever.

great stuff!!

Mike.

[Rearda]

I can't remember the name of the song; I learned it at school in Windermere, many years ago, and as I couldn't find any versions of it anywhere, I sang it myself (it's well out of copyright).

[mikesey1]

Just one more note. What IS that gorgeous song and who is singing it?