For some reason I decide to do a 35ish mile route taking in as many hill forts as I can in one day. This is the first of the day: Aconbury Camp, Herefordshire.
the first hill fort of the day is Achenbury camp about 4 miles south of Heraford Prehistoric Roman pottery found here suggests this could have been used as early as the Iron Age and definitely during the Roman period Interestingly it was also used much later in the 1600s during the Civil War where royalist troops occupied the site along with the Scots a little later during an attempted siege of Heraford Some locals apparently still believe that ghostly warriors still reenact these conflicts during misty dawns and that there have been sightings of soldiers lingering by campsites but my dad lived nearby for about a decade and I’m not sure he often met battle ready ghouls up there Legend also says there’s hidden treasure up there now but you’d probably be put in prison if you tried as it’s a scheduled monument now [Applause]