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Here’s an epic reimagining of a full-scale Iron Age assault upon (and burning of) the east gate of Danebury hillfort created by David Salariya for the 1980s guide and on-site information boards

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2021-12-29

2/2 A great mix of monument and people

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2021-11-24

- 17 and in one today😉. Render of the impressive of (on the edge of the in and surrounding landscape from > & photos below 1/n >

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2021-11-18

As we return from fieldwork we're thinking about Flowers Barrow hillfort captured in this painting (Near Worbarrow Bay 1930) by the supremely talented Philip Leslie Moffat Ward

It's in the ever wonderful Museum 😍

Happy

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2021-10-06

For here's a DTM for Fosbury Camp (and some rather lovely field systems lurking under the adjoining plantations and fields) just north of Chute in Wiltshire. There's also a possible length of *agger* in there if you look carefully.

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2021-09-15


The site of Alesia, a major belonging to the Mandubii of was the scene of the final desperate stand-off between and the in 52 BC.


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2021-08-11

3) A particularly fine depiction of the Caburn hillfort is also by a favourite artist: Eric

Here he was looking out from his studio in 1935, a view which, minus the horse-drawn ploughs, is pretty much the same today 😍

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2021-08-11

These stone-cut pits have been hidden under thick vegetation for decades, but thanks to the efforts of the they've been uncovered at last!

There are c.93 pits at Worlebury, with many illustrated in a recent survey by

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2021-07-15

Cluster of above river in Central with 3 mound graveyards on the ridges that lead to central

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2021-05-13

'Maiden Castle, Dorset', Paul Nash, watercolour, red chalk and pencil on paper, early 1940s.

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2021-05-12

Old Winchester Iron Age hillfort, located on a chalk spur of the South Downs with extensive views. Within the fort are 3 Bronze Age bowl barrows & possible pond barrow, more barrows outside the western entrance, shown chalk-covered in the artist’s impression.

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2021-05-05

Lubomia - hypothetical "capital" of tribe in Silesia and Moravia. https://t.co/rrsBPsT4pD

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2021-04-28

XVIII-century fort at Słup hill (Lower Silesia, Poland), part of Srebrna Góra fortress garnison (Silberberg Festung). As it's different from any of those - probably reused older settlement

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2021-04-14

Four more images of Ring showing the extensive flint mining at the west of the site. The SLRM/Open Positive Lidars particularly shows the field systems, pits, sub-rectangular Romano-British buildings and prob WW2 AA batteries.

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2021-04-07

For here's a short thread on a site that we love to bits: the simply stunning Hengistbury Head 😍🤩

Iron Age trade centre and prehistoric gateway to the world 👇👇

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2021-03-17



In Pena Grande, very close to the Zoñán hillfort (co. Mondoñedo, it is said that on Saint John's Eve you can see the "encantos" (the feeric beings) playing the bagpipes and dancing!

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2021-03-10

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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2021-03-10

Just because we're a charity doesn't mean we're not allowed to have beef

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2021-02-25

No one (in our humble opinion) captured a like Victor Ambrus

Here's Applecross / A'Chomraich for

Stunning. Absolutely stunning..

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2021-02-18

Very sad to hear of the passing of artist Victor Ambrus. Like many others, I enjoyed watching him bring the past to life on Time Team.

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2021-02-18