Day Three on the The Cambrian Way mountain trail 479 km (298 miles) with a total ascent of 22,460 m (73,700 ft). I think it could be Britain's hardest long distance trail. Its hard to say but looking at the map i think i started todays episode around the Mynydd Garnclochdy area i want give exact camping locations away. I was so wet from the rain all night i set about getting ready to walk around 4am just to keep warm. I was no risk at cold from the time of Year and in good health. So walked back up towards Mynydd Garnclochdy i think. The rain came back on top the hill. The rain was very bad so much so i could only see about couple of meters ahead what with the mist as well as the dark even with two powerful lights. By this time my cannon camera was destroyed by the weather i should know by now and my phone was useless take note people think phone navigation fine lucky i know this i used my garmin fenix3 gps watch with the track loaded onto so i knew i was heading in the general dir
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Wild camping Europe's Oldest Road in The British isles
Two nights wild camping along the The Ridgeway that is said to be an ancient road.
First night me and friend camped by Wayland's Smithy. Wayland's Smithy is said to be a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb. Archaeologists say the monument was built by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe. representing an architectural tradition of long barrow building widespread across Neolithic Europe. Wayland's Smithy known as the Severn-Cotswold group. A single crouched burial had been placed at one end and the mostly disarticulated remains of a further 14 individuals were scattered in front of it. Excavation in 1919 revealed the jumbled remains of seven adults and one child. Carbon dating of the burials in the tomb suggest it was a late use of this style of burial.
Second night wild camping in a well used spot with first pit for Ridgeway walkers a walk away from Uffington White Horse. Uffington White Horse is said to be a prehistoric hill figure from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill. The best views of the figure are obtained from around the villages of Great Coxwell, Longcot and Fernham. Uffington Horse is the oldest of the white horse figures in Britain. The figure is presumed to date to "the later prehistory" – the Iron Age (800 BC–AD 100) or the late Bronze Age (1000–700 BC). This theory was confirmed following a 1990 excavation of deposits of fine silt removed from the horse's 'beak' were scientifically dated to the late Bronze Age, Iron Age coins that bear a representation comparable to the Uffington White Horse have been found. The medieval Welsh book Llyfr Coch Hergest (Red Book of Hergest, 1375–1425) states: "Gerllaw tref Abinton y mae mynydd ac eilun march arno a gwyn ydiw. Ni thyf dim arno." This translates as "Near to the town of Abinton there is a mountain with a figure of a stallion upon it, and it is white. Nothing grows upon it. It has long been debated whether the chalk figure was intended to represent a horse or some other animal, such as a dog or a sabre-toothed cat. However, it has been called a horse since the 11th century at least. A cartulary of Abingdon Abbey, compiled between 1072 and 1084, refers to "mons albi equi" at Uffington ("the White Horse Hill"). Iron Age Uffington Castle, located on higher ground atop a knoll above the White Horse. Dragon Hill is a small hillock below the Uffington White Horse. Dragon Hill is a natural chalk hill with an artificially flattened top. according to legend, Saint George slew the dragon here. A bare patch of chalk upon which no grass will grow is purported to be where the dragon's blood spilled. It has been suggested as some sort of Iron Age ritual site associated with the nearby hill figure.
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Wittenham Clumps is the name for a pair of wooded chalk hills in the Thames Valley near Little Wittenham. Round Hill, is 120m above sea-level. Castle Hill site of an Iron Age hill fort is 110 m above sea-level. not normally considered one of The Clumps, is Brightwell Barrow, further to the south-east. The summits are wooded by the oldest beech tree plantings in England from 1740s. North slopes overlooking villages and towns whose sites of the first settlements of the English. The Clumps are the most visited outdoor site in the county of Oxfordshire, attracting over 200,000 visitors a year. Wittenham Clumps are near to the River Thames, and good views can be had from the Thames Path along the river. The white-walled reactor buildings of the Joint European Torus, site of the world's first successful controlled nuclear fusion experiments, can be seen around 6 km to the north-west from the clumps. The hillfort on Castle Hill. The earliest earthworks date to the late Bronze Age. In
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