The lost pre-Viking Toote Hill at Grimsby was a worthy rival to Silbury Hill, apparently! Nice piece of local pride from 1897 :)pic.twitter.com/X04fqyB34f
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The lost pre-Viking Toote Hill at Grimsby was a worthy rival to Silbury Hill, apparently! Nice piece of local pride from 1897 :)pic.twitter.com/X04fqyB34f
A photo of the Anglo-Saxon Toote Hill near Grimsby in the process of being destroyed (1903):pic.twitter.com/VFJJU6pprr
Plan of the Grimsby area & its 'Ancient British Monuments', published in Oliver's Monumental Antiquities of Great Grimsby, 1825:pic.twitter.com/FuinFI57hi
We had a Toot Hill in Skirbeck just outside Boston too & still there in 1922. Toot Lane still exists but Hill has gone now!pic.twitter.com/isgv4h3vFG
Thanks! :)
'Cun Hu Hill' That's rather intriguing - what's the derivation? ... and is that name still used by the locals?
name and fort lost to a golf course :( Thoughts on name in post, possibly involved word for king?
This is fascinating! Thank you!
my pleasure! :)
how on earth was this allowed to be destroyed by a golf course??
The southeast rampart of the fort is still partly visible on the ground and on lidar, but yes... :(
Have they been dug?
Not recently! The hill was, alas, quarried away at the beginning of the 20thC...
Have you perchance read the Tale of Haveloc the Dane? It tells of the founding of Grimsby.
Indeed! Original version is an interest of mine :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/613769843591000065 …
Brilliant! Used to listen to it as an audiobook to get myself to sleep :-) Nice to see someone tweeting about it :D !
On the Yaborough estate? Explains some of the residencd there I guess
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