Burial mounds and ancient tracks in Dorset
We're walking along an ancient track towards the summit of what many local people consider the highest hill in Dorset. Pilsdon Pen. But in recent years, this flat-topped landmark has been usurped by its tree-clad neighbour, Lewesdon Hill. Ordnance Survey insists Pilsdon is 909ft, some six inches shorter than Lewesdon (below). Despite the evidence to the contrary, people who have lived here all their lives will tell you Pilsdon is the taller of the two. The Cow to Lewesdon's Calf, as sailors used to call them. Whatever the truth, in the grand scheme of things, neither is very tall. But the two ancient hillforts stand like sentinels over the Marshwood Vale. From this side of Pilsdon, we look out across to Somerset. On a clear day, we can see Glastonbury Tor and the Mendips. There are Bronze Age burial mounds at Pilsdon Pen. And on the trackway on its north west flank, something much more recent. That's about it. Love Maddie x