Atop the Downs

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=55 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="climbing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Climbing North Wessex Downs"><U><B><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Walking Back, Ink Pen"><U><B><IMG SRC="0420e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>       </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="London Trip 9 2009"><U><B><IMG SRC="0450e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=425 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <div> Atop the Downs</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Two Photos</div> <div> <IMG SRC="8bca06a0.jpg" border=0 width="928" height="618" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Made it!  View back towards Ink Pen and Kintbury.  The Swan is the thin white slash in upper left, near the edge of photo.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8baa5430.jpg" border=0 width="933" height="579" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Atop the hill was a long barrow (burial mound) dating from 3500 BC, as well as England's largest prehistoric hill fort (earthworks 700m</div> <div> in diameter).  There was also the cheerful sight of a gibbet, which could be seen from some distance down below.  We began our descent</div> <div> as shadows started to lengthen.  We still had many miles to go before reaching Kintbury Station.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>