Well worth using the North Dorset Trailway along the old #SomersetAndDorsetJtRailway from #SturminsterNewton to #Spetisbury - calling at #NTHambledonHill #HodHill then cross #CrawfordBridge to #Shapwick and #NTBadburyRings as the man says, fully of Ramparty Goodness! 😉🤩

Inspired by a post a quick dust off of Henry Durden's collection. #Dorset #HodHill
Henry (b.1807-d.1892)was a grocer and sometime excavator but more commonly purchaser of finds across North Dorset. He formed the upper stories of his shop (then much deeper than the present shop) into a museum.

For instance
"Thus and very recently, the Roman Castrum within the Celtic camp and Oppidium on Hod Hill has, to the lasting disgrace of those concerned, been ruthlessly destroyed; the plough has passed over its Praetorium, and the site once occupied...is now no longer to be traced"
#HodHill