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#FindsFriday A 6cm Iron Age bronze boar found at Gaer Fawr hillfort, Guilsfield before 1833 & published by Barnwell in Arch.Camb. 1871, displaying'..a wonderful amount of fidelity and spirit'
Probably mounted as a helmet emblem.
Gaer Fawr survey by @RC_Survey & @LouBarkerLou1
@DanHerb10 @mividaloca100 Belatedly sending you my deepest sympathies 😉
Currently writing about the mighty Gaer Fawr #hillfort at Guilsfield nr Welshpool & revisiting the simply excellent 2009 @RC_Survey report by @LouBarkerLou1 👏
Very hard not to get excited by a hachured plan of the north-east gateway & its 38m long corridor approach 🤩(c)RCAHMW
#HillfortsWednesday Defence: the everyday weapon - the slingshot - was deadly in the right hands... 'Ostorius [Scapula] led his enthusiastic soldiers forward.. and reached the rampart. But then, in an exchange of missiles, they came off worse in wounds and casualties' (Tacitus)
Should we be celebrating #SlingShotSaturday 😅. Fab seeing these emerging at #DigCaerfai promontory fort with @DigVentures & @CHERISHproj; these everyday weapons were gathered from local beaches but were deadly in the right hands - 25m per second, fracturing a skull @ 60m 😬🤕
My half-century today falls on #HillfortsWednesday - No better way to mark it than with a new view of Flimston Bay coastal promontory fort @PembsCoast. Not a patch on the pro reconstruction artists out there, but an attempt to imagine & visualise this important eroding site.
@PaulTubb1 Particular hillfort defences a little more like this local hillfort -
https://t.co/VCQ1zq43IB
#HillfortsWednesday Welsh hillforts today are usually peaceful, grassy places forming part of the landscape but in prehistory they were crowded with people and structures & encircled with fresh stone walls. This basic 2015 diagram peels back the grass to show what lies beneath.