Chanctonbury Ring, W Sussex - herding sheep - Valentines postcard 1953

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  'On the South Downs Showing Chanctonbury Ring', West Sussex - shows rural scene with shepherd and sheep
• Publisher:  Valentines (52856)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d brown
• Postmark(s):  Worthing 13 July 1953 wavy line
• Sent to:  Mr & Mrs Buxton, 70 Wigston Street, Plaistow, London E13
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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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Chanctonbury Ring (known as Chanklebury in Sussex dialect)^[1] is a hill fort based ring of trees atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in the English county of West Sussex. A ridgeway, now part of the South Downs Way, runs along the hill. Bertrand Russell once remarked that ""any view that includes Chanctonbury Ring is a good view"".

A trig point is located about 400 metres (440 yd) west of the Ring, recorded by the Ordnance Survey as 238 metres (781 ft) above sea level. Although this was originally recorded as the top of Chanctonbury Hill and thus the Marilyn summit, recent measurements suggest that the area of the Ring is higher, about 242 metres (794 ft) above sea level.

Chanctonbury Ring was originally a small hill fort in a commanding position looking across the weald to the north. Pottery found and carbon dating on an animal bone suggest the fort was built in the early Iron Age, in the 6th to 5th centuries BC, but some Bronze Age pottery has also been found on the site.

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theme=topographical: british

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county/ country=sussex

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period=1945 - present

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