Chanctonbury Ring
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Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort 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, n
Chanctonbury Ring, March 2017
3D view of the digital terrain model
View of the south-west quadrant of Chanctonbury Ring, showing the bank and south-western entrance (not part of the original structure)
View of the interior of Chanctonbury Ring, where the remains of two Roman temples are located a short distance below the surface
Robert Macfarlane (writer)
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Robert Macfarlane is a British non-fiction writer, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Macfarlane is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include T
Chanctonbury Ring
…supposed mystic power of the site and imagined gruesome Druidic sacrifices taking place there. In his 2013 travelogue The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Robert Macfarlane gives an account of an unsettling experience sleeping out on Chanctonbury Ring one summer night, during which he is woken by unearthly screaming at 2…
Macfarlane in 2025