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The Lamb Down Badge

Codford, Wiltshire

An Australian army badge carved by homesick soldiers.

During the First World War, Australian and New Zealand soldiers trained in camps around Codford. In 1916 Australian troops carved a huge Rising Sun badge into the chalk of Lamb Down.

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When
Cut 1916
Where
51.1700, -2.0400
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Visible from the A36 near Codford. The Anzac war graves are in St Mary's churchyard.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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