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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 35m

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Did retrace my steps back to Treyarnon, this was a major highlight of the trip (not least because i got a room here at the YHA place *with a sea view* for £36, ridiculous! )

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

This weekends adventure: having our hearts stolen by Treyarnon, North Cornwall

realised i said to a nice couple who ran a nice coffee place in Bampton that i was heading to ...Tregaron (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)
a small change of consonants that would've in fact represented a 273 mile / 5hr 25min detour if true

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1h

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Up crack of dawn the next day, i needn't have bothered as the sunrise that the forecast had got my hopes up never materialised
Still - can't be too downcast with a revisit to The Rumps

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1h

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After threading the razor-thin cornwall roads, got to Treyarnon & caught the Winecove Point Complex at sunset
Not clear if this was always 2 promotory forts or one which has eroded clean down the middle
Incredible either way

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2h

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One of the biggest incentives to get out to North Devon was to get a propper look at the Clovelly Dykes
A gorgeous multi-enclosure site with the sun coming out just in time, the gateway to the north is particularly wild

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2h

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Another long drive later & Berry Castle (not a typo, idk if it started life as another 'bury castle')
trees cleared from the site after 2015 when bunch of trees came down in a storm & damaged the banks

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2h

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There was a lot of road to cover between here & North Devon, we broke up the journey a bit with a stop off in Taunton & just outside town to the west: Norton Fitzwarren

#HillfortsWednesday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2h

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Firstly, while we are getting to Devon & Cornwall in the next weeks, you can catch our whole series so far on Hillforts in the south of England >>>

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hillforts & the UK - YouTube

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2h

#HillfortsWednesday & this weekend we went on a bit of an adventure to North Devon & Cornwall, catching a bunch of sites & particularly, promontory forts

A small 🧵👇

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1d

#TombTuesday & the long barrow in the centre of Bratton Camp

see more in the new episode on the hillforts of Wiltshire >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 1d

'Darling! Bring me my hunting outfit,
yes...
Yes, the very-sheer-and-also-flesh-coloured-unitard
...I don't know,
...hunting reasons

Also could you pack my full get-caught-in-a-storm-outfit in a separate bag
...
...DID I STUTTER??'

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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And while we're at the Somerset Museum lets appreciate this rather nice aspect of Taunton
(though had to colour correct this rather vigorously due to the purple window tints)

#MedievalMonday

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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Elsewhere the museum also has this hunting mosaic from the East Coker villa
Clothes believed to be typical of the second half of C4 AD

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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and of course, we've got to give it up for a nice bit of guilloche border

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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The central panel shows Venus, with the two cupids: a torch pointed down to represent Dido's death & one pointed up to resemble the founding of Rome

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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Perhaps the most famous image from the floor, Dido & Aeneas kissing in the woods after sheltering from the storm

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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Continuing anti-clockwise, as part of a plot by Venus to make Dido & Aeneas fall in love, Cupid leads them on a hunt

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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The next panel then assembles the main cast:
Aeneas, Cupid, Venus & Queen Dido of Carthage

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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So to go through the panels & story of this remarkable survivor from a bath block of a villa, laid around 350 AD

The first pannel shows the ships leaving troy

#MosaicMonday
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

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First of all, we're going to be in Somerset looking at its Hillforts in just a couple of weeks, but for now you can catch our Journey with this episode & the playlist with all the others so far >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

How do you build a massive Hillfort anyway?

YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

Had a great time at the Somerset Museum on the weekend, so for #MosaicMonday a short thread on its mosaics which of course include this, the Low Ham mosaic of Dido & Aeneas

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

This weekends adventure: having our hearts stolen by Treyarnon, North Cornwall

realised i said to a nice couple who ran a nice coffee place in Bampton that i was heading to ...Tregaron (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)
a small change of consonants that would've in fact represented a 273 mile / 5hr 25min detour if true

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

#AncientSiteSunday & the rumps early this morning, not quite the sunrise promised earlier in the week, but still great to be back

We'll get to Cornwall soon but to catch up with our hillfort journey so far it's all here >>>
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 4d

#RuinedPrioryFriday with Shaftesbury Abbey, not in great shape but what remains has been arranged into a very nice garden space

To catch more from the edge of North Dorset into Wiltshire, check out our latest Hillforts episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 4d

[I hesistate to even type it lest i somehow manifest this as a future, but i can pretty much gurantee some tech oligarchs have already envisaged it / pitched it as a revenue model

"Imagine if everyone had to pay for every photo they took, imagine if we could monetise observing stuff 📷+🏛=💰 " ]

Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 4d

pfff 🙄

i have this nightmare of a future when all (digital) cameras are constantly connected to the cloud and land owners / local authorities paywall / prohibit certain angles or geo-areas inside your device
...everyone clings on to legacy tech where available 📽

and it totally sucks 🤖🤖🤖

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