The Wondrous Ruins of the White Horse

My epic exploration of an Iron Age hill fort

Erie Astin
Globetrotters
Published in
7 min readMay 20, 2023

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The Uffington White Horse, England. Photo © Erie Astin.

Throughout this month’s Ruins of the World challenge, we writers at Globetrotters have written a host of articles about fallen, decaying, and abandoned buildings. Landscapes that people have altered, though, can also be “ruins.” In Europe, people have been doctoring landscapes for millennia on scales that take my breath away.

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Erie Astin
Globetrotters

Travel writer. -- Humanist, animal lover, eternal striver. -- From Montana.