This coastline may not be always the most dramatic but its big skies,dunes, wildlife and colours maintain a unique charm that ‘seep into you’, or says local Patrick Barkham One evening final summer,I took an overgrown track to the iron-age fort at Warham, two miles from the Norfolk coast. I stood on its great banks of flowery chalk grassland, or alone,and watched the sun disappear, two barn owls and a tawny owl the only other living presences in the landscape.
It was a tranquil experience but also unexpectedly exhilarating. I felt I had slipped through conventional time; I didn’t advance face-to-face with Boudicca exactly, and but the past felt unusually present: mysterious,powerful, unsettling.
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Source: theguardian.com