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A wonderful hillfort in Wiltshire. Oldbury Castle. A bronze age enclosure that had been extended and then developed into a hill fort. The views from here are stunning and the chalk undulations below the earthworks & monument are a treat for artists to paint.

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2019-07-11

Brent Hill, South Brent
Lots going on on this little hill.
Early

artefacts & enclosures
chapel & lynchets (NE)
~16thC beacon
~19thC 19thC & 20thC quarries.

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2019-05-29

What would you pick as the most outstanding archaeological site in Scotland?
The French cartographer, J.D. Barbié du Bocage, chose to celebrate Craig Phadrig hillfort, near Inverness, on his 1790 map L’Écosse avec ses Isles. https://t.co/KWTCNES7DU

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2019-03-25

and this time some from North Rhine-Westphalia to be precise. We have a with a cool name Babilonie, LaTene period and also a seat of king Wittekind. More to the E we can see 2 more one later reused as castle.

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2019-02-13

'Cause of my rumps, my rumps my rumps my rumps. My lovely, lumpy rumps.
Another spotlight goes to an aptly named cliff-castle in Cornwall, The Rumps. Glorious on a good day, but imagine inhabiting this promontory during bad weather!

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2019-01-16

To carry on from last week...it is still Dinmore hill :) I have updated viewshed analysis and have put more observer points on the hillfort. Now viewshed map made by looks like this. Observer and Target offset are 2m.

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2019-01-09

(whoops) VIDEO - One of Wiltshire's wonders, the magnificent Cley Hill Camp Iron Age hillfort, with bonus bowl barrows. https://t.co/7gDm9bQS3f

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2018-12-26

Dyn Sylwy - one of the largest hillforts on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). Note the (later) coastal limestone quarry in foreground - see link for more information from . Generated in https://t.co/KTh42d57MW

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2018-12-18

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.

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2018-12-12

For a final look at hillfort on here's the original reconstruction of the 'Arthurian period' SW gate from in 1975, an update by in 2008 and the area of the gate itself in 2018

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2018-10-25

Nice Spring day The Lodge gathering ref for IronAge Hillfort illo on Tues, Nuthatches piping, choral Redwings, and some very smart Bramblings

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2018-03-23

Hillforts, warfare and society in Bronze Age Ireland
Prof William O'Brien
7 Dec 2015, 5:30
https://t.co/unh7YQY4q3

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2015-11-18