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Aerial archaeologist @RC_Survey | FSA | Trustee @CambriansArch | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES - Logaston Press | #Running🏃| Personal Account
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An incredible advert! My first thought was this...⤵️

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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 &

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Belatedly sending you my deepest sympathies 😉

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Currently writing about the mighty Gaer Fawr at Guilsfield nr Welshpool & revisiting the simply excellent 2009 report by 👏

Very hard not to get excited by a hachured plan of the north-east gateway & its 38m long corridor approach 🤩(c)RCAHMW

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 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)

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Should we be celebrating 😅. Fab seeing these emerging at promontory fort with & ; these everyday weapons were gathered from local beaches but were deadly in the right hands - 25m per second, fracturing a skull @ 60m 😬🤕

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My half-century today falls on - No better way to mark it than with a new view of Flimston Bay coastal promontory fort . Not a patch on the pro reconstruction artists out there, but an attempt to imagine & visualise this important eroding site.

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A fiery end to a winter's day in Ceredigion

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Particular hillfort defences a little more like this local hillfort -

https://t.co/VCQ1zq43IB

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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.

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