Ok here's three from me
View over the South Downs from my sit tree, from here i look out over an ancient landscape, the hill in the back ground is Cissbury and the site of an Iron Age Fort, where if you walk a complete circuit of the ramparts it's over a mile long, the fort ramparts also enclose some Neolithic Flint mines with the tops of the shafts still visible (like Grimes Graves), the flint from this site has been found as far away as the Eastern Med and the north of Scotland, not to far away from here an Acheulian hand axe was found that was dated to 200'000 BC. To this day we still find stone tools in the garden, my personal favourite being a flint scrapper that ive had dated and it's 6000 years old, blows your mind to think you are holding a tool that was made by another hand 6000 years ago.
The fields surrounding the Hill Fort are also full of Tumulus's (Tumuli sp?) and barrows, most have been ploughed out over the millennia, but others are still visible in the landscape, i can see the hill the Fort is on from my Kitchen.
From where i sit under my tree, i quite often witness Kestrels hovering in the valley below me and have Buzzards thermalling over head, not to mention the plethora of song birds and more recently the return of Common Lizards - wonderful
Next up is 'my woods' in Spring time, this is my bolt hole and where i go to get some peace and quiet, the owner of the woods leaves them wild so nature takes it course, but in the past they have been used by the Canadians for live fire practice in WW2 and we still find shrapnel in the trees and as per a recent trip up there .55 Anti Tank rounds (spent i hasten to add), i love these woods at all times of the year, but especially at this time of the year when everything is coming into life and as you can see the Bluebell display, is quite simply - stunning
The last one is the Lane at the end of the road from home, i walk this lane almost every day and get to see it in it's different moods, i can disappear up here for a quick wander of about a mile and a half, stop of at the wood yard to see if there is anything worth having (yes i have permission to take stuff), the lane is not quite as pretty this year as all of the Elm trees have been taken down as part of the disease control, but it will soon regenerate and in all honesty, the hedgerows have been neglected for 25 years or more and needed some serious work doing to them, and although the lane looks pretty horrendous at the moment, it will soon be back, rejuvenated and in all it's glory, the fun part now is discovering those plant species that have lain dormant for years and are now starting to appear.
