Holiday snaps

[andrewducker]

This is the view from our bedroom window. Mum walking away from cows who she has been instructing not to chew on our fencing.


At Hound Tor, with parents and Julie


In the remains of Hundatora, a village abandoned in 1350 when the climate of Devon changed.

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Going my your mum's stride, I doubt that the kine would dare to so much as nibble at your fencing. What leaves me gasping in awe, of course (because I'm a Southern Californian) is the verdant plant growth as seen from that window -- with nary a sprinkler-head or irrigation-ditch in view.  Mind you, there's also the niggling feeling that this is Wrong & Unnatural.

I'm wondering if those are the bases, or the (more nearly) tops, of the village's walls. The way things work in England, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the basal part of some of them were pre-Roman. (We Americans, as you know, are inordinately impressed by Antiquity, and consider a century to be A Very Long Time.)

[andrewducker]

I love Scotland because of the greeness everywhere, and Devon is even moreso, except that the temperature is about five degrees warmer!

Those are probably the tops of the walls, there would have been wooden bits on top of that for the roofs, and then turf on top of that to keep the heat in, I'd have thought.

There's another village a bit further away from the road that's definitely pre-roman. I took some photos a couple of years ago when I visited that, but I'm not sure where they are.