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Cadbury Castle defences

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Cadbury Castle defences
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Cadbury Castle defences is a castle, fort or tower in Somerset, England. Perhaps the earthworks still hold the shape of hands that dug them, pressing soil until it became a wall. Maybe the castle never needed stone because the hill itself learned to resist. Imagine walking its ridge at dusk when the defences stop being a fact and become a living boundary between the ordinary world and the one that remembers.
A named place photographed at this map point in Somerset.
Cadbury Castle defences are believed to have been constructed by the Romans in the 3rd or 4th century AD, later reused by the Anglo-Saxons. The site is important as a potential location of the legendary Camelot and is associated with early medieval power struggles in Somerset.

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