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21 SECRETS OF SOMERSET
Somerset Life
|July 2020
Author MIKE DEAN reveals some of the lesser-known Somerset secrets that appear in his latest book - did you know them?
2 The Somerset Levels is home to what is believed to be the oldest trackway (ancient roadway) in Europe, dating from around 4,000 BC.
3 The county has one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Britain at Ham Hill, covering an area of about 210 acres.
4 In 2009, during excavations for a ‘Park and Ride’ site at Taunton, the remains of one of Britain’s largest known Iron Age roundhouses were discovered.
5 A Roman amulet found in 1990 near Shepton Mallet, and thought to be one of the earliest examples of Christian art in Britain, subsequently proved to be a fake.
6 In the 17th century. Somerset had its own ‘Witchfinder General’.
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