The oldest article I’ve noticed on this so far is from 2013; at that time the number of housing units was higher. Local housing has already encroached on the site, and based on some of the other shots I’ve found of it, grazing is done on the top.
The site was used as a training site in WWI (see the wiki entry up there), and they dug all over the hill, part of their training for trench warfare. The site has never been scientifically studied; it would be nice to work out something — the developer would get to ring the whole site, but at some larger minimum standoff, and would have to pay for the research in the areas to be constructed. Naturally there would have to be more units.
[Aerial photo by Alistair Reid]
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Me too. With the way they make people who want to rehabilitate historic listed buildings jump through hoops, and go into debt to do the work as directed, it makes me wonder who on the planning board is getting a kick-back on the building of these new homes. It's a bad decision that's for sure. Even archaeologists are restricted where they can put their trenches near historic sites. If they want to dig near one of these sites, they are told how many feet away they have to be, how many trenches they can have, and how many feet they can go down.
They need to do this to the developer.....
The last time swords crossed in the region was at the Battle of Maserfield in AD642, when nobles including Cynddylan, said to be the last descendant of King Arthur to reign in the Welsh Marches, defeated the army of King Oswald of Northumbria. Oswald was defeated, dismembered and his head impaled on a pole for a year.
