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Reconstruction of the probably Pictish outpost of Dundurn, Perthshire, by Peter Dennis, and the site today. Perhaps a key stronghold of the Pictish kingdom of Atholl, it was torched in 682. #HillfortsWednesday
Harold II, king of the English, reached Tatecastre (Tadcaster, Yorkshire) with all his levies #OTD in 1066. There he prepared to fight his brother Tostig Godwineson and Harald Hardrada, king of Norway. Harold may have covered the 200 miles from London in as little as five days.
Reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon royal palace complex of Gefrin (Yeavering), Northumberland, as it may have appeared in the early 7thC. Spit-roasted beef was a major item of the diet there and in the foreground is a droveway for cattle. [©English Heritage]
Reconstruction of the probably Pictish outpost of Dundurn, Perthshire, by Peter Dennis, and the site today. Perhaps a key stronghold of the Pictish kingdom of Atholl, it was torched in 682. #HillfortsWednesday