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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:00 am    Post subject: Crop Circle at Ravensburgh Castle, Hexton, UK Reply with quote

Crop Circle at Ravensburgh Castle, Hexton, UK


A crop circle seen on Google Earth, near Ravensburgh castle,
Hertfordshire, UK. I cant think that I have ever heard of or seen a crop
circle from space before! Situated a few hundred metres NW of the
Icknield way and some aprox 400 metres SE of the Iron Age Hillfort of
Ravensburgh castle (shrouded in plantation).
It is a of a geometric circular type with 6 triangular points, it is some
43 metres in diameter and situated in a corn field in the North East
Chiltern Hill range on the Hertfordshire Bedfordshire border. It lies 100
metres West of the Lilley to Hexton road.
The whole area is rich in Neolithic, Iron age and Romano British
habitation and laden with ancient burial grounds. Whoever or whatever
made this circle must have had an intimate knowledge of local
topography and alignements.

Think the shots could have been taken around June/July 2004 ??


W.W. PJ, & VideOhEaD
(Icknield Way)

If you have the latest 'Google Earth' APP, then you can click the link
below to go straight to the location
google earth location


Google Earth Community Crop Circle post

co-ordinates can be entered if you have problems
Latt 51°56'47.10"N
Longt 0°23'29.45"W


Google earth is fascinating and highly addictive!
Although many areas are still not yet fully covered by 'high -
resolution', it's only a matter of time before Google will trully
cover the whole Earth....frightening...next?....
Real - Time - Google Earth..trully frightening!!

Take a look for your self
GOOGLE EARTH COMMUNITY HOME PAGE
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:51 am    Post subject: Hertfordshire by Herbert Winckworth Tompkins Reply with quote

Hertfordshire by Herbert Winckworth Tompkins
Found on Project Gutenberg
There are 18,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online
Book Catalog. Including
"Hertfordshire, by Herbert Winckworth Tompkins!"
(What a fine name!)
In the book which can be downloaded here is an interesting
perspective of Hexton and Ravensburgh Castle!

"Hexton (about 6 miles N.W. from Hitchin Station, G.N.R.) lies on
a tongue of the county surrounded W., N. and E. by Bedfordshire.
The Church of St. Faith, W. from the village, was rebuilt, with the
exception of the embattled tower, in 1824, as a Perp. edifice. The
St. Nicholas Chapel, N. side of chancel, takes the place of the chapel
bearing the same name in the former church. There is a memorial to
Peter Taverner (d. 1601), who was, I suppose, father to that Francis
Taverner, Esq., who compiled a record of the antiquities of Hexton
and [Pg 122]set it in the chapel. Little space can be spared for excerpts
in this volume, but the details which Taverner brought together are so

interesting that I transcribe a part of them from a copy in my
possession:—

“Near unto the Roman military Way called Icknild or Ikenild-Street,
which passeth by this Parish upon a very high Hill is to be seen a
warlike Fort of great Strength, and ancient Works, which seemeth
to have been a Summer standing Camp of the Romans: And near i
t on the Top of another Hill called Wayting-Hill, a Hillock was raised
up, such as the Romans were wont to rear for Souldiers slain, wherein
many Bones have been found. The Saxons call’d this Fort Ravensburgh,
from a City in Germany, whereof the Duke of Saxony beareth the Title
of Lord at this Day. And this Town, which the Britains perhaps call’d Hesk
of Reed, which doth abound much in this Place; the Sazons call’d
Heckstanes-Tune, that is the Town of Reed and Stones, if not rather
Hockstanes-Tune, that is, the Town of Mire and Stones, for old
Englishmen, call deep Mire, Hocks: Or may be from Grates set in
Rivers or Waters before Floodgates, which are call’d Hecks; neither
is it unlikely but that the Danes made some Use of this Fort, for a
Parcel of Ground near thereunto is called Dane-Furlong to this Day.
Some of these Conjectures may be true, but this is certain, that Offa,
a Saxon King, of the Mertians about 795, founded the Monastery of
St. Albans, in [Pg 123]Memory of St. Alban, and that Sexi an honourable
and devout Dane (as it is in the Chartulary of the Abby) about Anno Dom.
1030, gave to the said Monastery the Town of Heckstane-Tune and the
Abbot of St. Albans held this Mannor in the time of King William the
Conqueror.

“This Vill at that time did lie in the Half-hundred of Hiz, and from that
time during the Space of 510 Years, the Abbots of St. Albans were
Lords of the Mannors now call’d Hexton. They were also Patrons of
this Church (dedicated to St. Faith, which Saint had her Statue erected
over a Fountain near this Church Yard, call’d St. Faith’s Well) for
John de Hertford, the 23d Abbot, did appropriate this Church of
Hexstoneston to the said Monastery. The Cellarers of which Monastery
kept the Court Leet and the Court Baron, and received the Rents of the
Demeasnes and Customary Tenants of this Mannor; and the Sacrists
had the disposing of the Profits of the Rectory.

“The said Fort, which the common People call Ravensborough Castle,
is cast up in the Form of an Oval, and containeth sixteen Acres, one
Rood, and fifteen Poles of Ground, and is naturally strengthened with
mighty deep and very steep Combs, which the inhabitants call Lyn.


“The Town of Hexton is seated at the Foot of the Mountains, whence
issue many Springs of Water; the Mountains are a continued Rock of
Stone.”

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