The Shambles
Top image is from Google Streetview. Bottom image is the same view in 1011.
It's a thousand years ago and we're still out of town :) The road which I think included the shambles, would've been levelled, and supported by, a small embankment to the left, (now gone). Which would've run from here to Hangdog lane, and as we'll see here, is consolidated by a row of trees to prevent movement and slippage.
Top image is from Google Streetview. Bottom image is the same view in 1011.
Here you can see the embankment needed to support a level route. In the distance is the bare hill face of Tory and Budbury fort. The clothes of the people in the scene are taken from the image in the link below (and others) of drawings produced in the 2nd quarter of the 11th century.
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/161214861648891513/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/161214861648891513/
Looking back the other way (east). Top image is from Google Streetview. Bottom image is almost the same view in 1011.
Top image from Streetview is taken from about where the woman is walking in the 1011 image. Taking a view from back here in 2020 would likely mean a trip to hospital, after standing in the middle of a busy road :) But I loved this view in 1011 as soon as I saw it, with Silver street rising in the background, and I like that the sun is in the same place in the Streetview image.
I think there may have been a practical reason for people wearing bright colourful clothes. If the boys in the trees wear green, you can't see them at all, unless your told they're there. So in an environment with no police, where everyone has to look out for each other, being able to see where people are, even at a distance is very useful.
I think there may have been a practical reason for people wearing bright colourful clothes. If the boys in the trees wear green, you can't see them at all, unless your told they're there. So in an environment with no police, where everyone has to look out for each other, being able to see where people are, even at a distance is very useful.
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