Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset - Brean Down - postcard c.1950s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Brean Down, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
• Publisher:  none given
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset standing 320 feet (98 m) high and extending 1.5 miles (2 km) into the Bristol Channel at the eastern end of Bridgwater Bay between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea.

Made of carboniferous limestone, it is a continuation of the Mendip Hills, and two further continuations are the small islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm.

It is now owned by the National Trust, and is rich in wildlife, history and archaeology. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.^[1] There are steep cliffs and, at its seaward point, a Brean Down Fort built in 1865 and then re-armed in the Second World War

There is evidence of a pagan shrine at Brean Down dating from pre-Roman times^[2] which was re-established as a Romano-Celtic style temple in the mid-4th century and probably succeeded by a small late-4th century Christian oratory.^[3] Several Roman finds including gold coins of Augustus, Nero, and Drusus, two silver denarii of Vespasian and a Roman cornelian ring were found at the site during quarrying.^[4]

There is also evidence of an Iron age hill fort and prehistoric barrows and field systems.^[5] One tradition holds that the bodies of the knights responsible for the assassination of Thomas Becket were returned to the island and buried there.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=somerset

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted