Gogmagog Hills also known as Gog Magog Downs, Cambridge,Cambridgeshire, England, UK. May 2016 The Gog Magog Downs (also known as the Gog Magog Hills o
Gogmagog Hills also known as Gog Magog Downs, Cambridge,Cambridgeshire, England, UK. May 2016 The Gog Magog Downs (also known as the Gog Magog Hills or simply the Gogs) are a range of low chalk hills, extending for several miles to the southeast ofCambridge in England. The highest points are marked on Ordnance Survey 1:25000 maps as "Telegraph Clump"[map 1] at 75 m (246 ft), Little Trees Hill[map 2] andWandlebury Hill,[map 3] both at 74 m (243 ft). In English folklore and the Matter of Britain Gogmagog was a giant, and according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae one of the inhabitants of Albion discovered by Brutus of Troy and his men. He was the last of the giants that they killed, and was thrown from a cliff by Corineus. The earliest mention of the name Gog Magog for this region is found in a decree of 1574, forbidding students to visit the Gog Magog Hills on pain of a fine.[1] Random excavations around the hills revealed the remains of defences at Copley Hill and Cherry Hinton, not older than the Iron Age but the sites themselves are now known already to have been occupied in the Bronze Age.[2] The better-preserved hill fort known as the Wandlebury Ring, which is now situated in a public park, had several concentric ditches and earthen walls, which were kept in place by wooden palisades. It was already inhabited in the Bronze Age[3] and archaeological findings include bronze and iron objects and pottery, including "Knobbed Ware", dating from the Bronze Age.
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