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 level 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 far distance is the gravelly hill face of Tory and on top of that is Budbury hill fort.
I've added Some people to illustrate both the clothes and values of the time. Here we see three boys, one in a tree (Dewydd) a Welsh slave who was collecting horses poo from the road and two other boys (Cuthbert and little Wilfrid) who have come down to see how Dewydd is doing. The clothes in the scene are informed from the image in the link below (and others) of drawings produced in the 2nd quarter of the 11th century, and my intuitive feeling for the clothes design from seeing 11th century drawings of people in England.
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/161214861648891513/
I've added Some people to illustrate both the clothes and values of the time. Here we see three boys, one in a tree (Dewydd) a Welsh slave who was collecting horses poo from the road and two other boys (Cuthbert and little Wilfrid) who have come down to see how Dewydd is doing. The clothes in the scene are informed from the image in the link below (and others) of drawings produced in the 2nd quarter of the 11th century, and my intuitive feeling for the clothes design from seeing 11th century drawings of people in England.
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.
In the 1011 image we see a Celtic slave Woman (Aurelia) with collected wood on her back, being helped by her owners children, a boy (Sigfried) on the left and a little girl (Cwenhild) on the right, who like her and are having fun helping her. There were still 9 households of slaves recorded in Bradford on Avon in the 1086 domesday book.
I think there may have been a practical reason for people wearing bright colourful clothes. If the boy in the tree wears green, he's affectively camouflaged and you can't see him at all, unless your told he's 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.
In the 1011 image we see a Celtic slave Woman (Aurelia) with collected wood on her back, being helped by her owners children, a boy (Sigfried) on the left and a little girl (Cwenhild) on the right, who like her and are having fun helping her. There were still 9 households of slaves recorded in Bradford on Avon in the 1086 domesday book.
I think there may have been a practical reason for people wearing bright colourful clothes. If the boy in the tree wears green, he's affectively camouflaged and you can't see him at all, unless your told he's 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.