On Saturday I thought I'd take the
newly re-tyred Copenhagen-Pedersen out along the
Roman Road to Bartlow to eat my lunch beside the wonderful
"Bartlow Hills", really a group of four Roman burial mounds, the largest such mounds north of the Alps, the biggest of which is 40ft high. It really is a most remarkable and atmospheric place and, on a sunny afternoon, there are few better places to find some welcome shade where one can also look upon a sight that so powerfully and imaginatively sends one back into the ancient past.
After lunch, before rejoining the Roman Road at Linton, I went via
Hadstock church to see another ancient wonder, the oldest door still in use in the country which,
with the help of dendrochronology, has been dated to between 1044-1067AD.
A splendid way of spending a day and below are a few photos I took along the way. All except one (noted below) were taken with my iPhone 6+ and the
Lenka App.
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| The Roman Road on the way to Bartlow |
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| Blossom on the way to Bartlow |
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| The Roman Road on the way to Bartlow |
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| The Roman Road on the way to Bartlow |
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| Lunch at Bartlow Hills |
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| Bartlow Hills |
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| Bartlow Hills |
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| Bartlow Hills |
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| Bartlow Hills |
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| Bartlow Hills |
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| Bartlow Hills |
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| On the way to Hadstock |
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| A friendly and welcome greeting |
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| The Anglo-Saxon door at Hadstock church |
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| A gnarled tree by the footpath on the hill in Linton (taken with the Blackie App) |
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| Blossom by the footpath on the hill in Linton |
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| The Water Tower on the hill in Linton |
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| The Roman Road running alongside Wandlebury on the way home |
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