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#30DayMapChallenge - 17 and #HillfortsWednesday in one today😉. Render of the impressive #Neolithic/ #IA #enclosure of #Hembury (on the edge of the #BlackdownHills in #EastDevon) and surrounding landscape from @EnvAgencyGeomat #LiDAR > #QGIS & #GIMP. #Hillfort photos below 1/n >
As we return from fieldwork we're thinking about Flowers Barrow hillfort #Dorset, captured in this painting (Near Worbarrow Bay 1930) by the supremely talented Philip Leslie Moffat Ward
It's in the ever wonderful @Russell_Cotes Museum #Bournemouth 😍
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
For #HillfortsWednesday, here's a #lidar 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 #RomanRoad *agger* in there if you look carefully.
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The site of Alesia, a major #fort belonging to the Mandubii #tribe of #Celts, was the scene of the final desperate stand-off between #Rome and the #Gauls in 52 BC.
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3) A particularly fine depiction of the Caburn hillfort #Sussex is also by a favourite artist: Eric #Ravilious
Here he was looking out from his studio in 1935, a view which, minus the horse-drawn ploughs, is pretty much the same today 😍
#HillfortsWednesday
These stone-cut pits have been hidden under thick vegetation for decades, but thanks to the efforts of the #Worlebury @HillFortGroup they've been uncovered at last!
There are c.93 pits at Worlebury, with many illustrated in a recent survey by @HE_Archaeology
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#HillfortsWednesday Cluster of #hillforts above river #Sava in Central #Slovenia with 3 mound graveyards on the ridges that lead to central #hillfort.
'Maiden Castle, Dorset', Paul Nash, watercolour, red chalk and pencil on paper, early 1940s.
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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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Lubomia - hypothetical "capital" of #Golensizi tribe in Silesia and Moravia. #hillfortswednesday https://t.co/rrsBPsT4pD
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 #HillfortsWednesday @qgis
Four more #Lidar images of #Cissbury 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. #HillfortsWednesday
For #HillfortsWednesday here's a short thread on a site that we love to bits: the simply stunning Hengistbury Head 😍🤩 @hengistburyvc @BCPCouncil
Iron Age trade centre and prehistoric gateway to the world 👇👇
#HillfortsWednesday #InternationalBagpipeDay
In Pena Grande, very close to the Zoñán hillfort (co. Mondoñedo, #Galicia), it is said that on Saint John's Eve you can see the "encantos" (the feeric beings) playing the bagpipes and dancing!
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.
No one (in our humble opinion) captured a #Broch like Victor Ambrus
Here's Applecross / A'Chomraich #Highland for #HillfortsWednesday
Stunning. Absolutely stunning..
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. #RIP #HillfortsWednesday #TimeTeam #archaeology
@Durotrigesdig @NewForestNPA @NewForestArch Don’t forget Danebury hillfort and Hampshire CC’s commissioned work #HillfortsWednesday LOVE the storage pits.
#HillfortsWednesday @WiltshireMuseum Grey wash drawing, Cley Hill Camp, c 1920, by E J Burrow. And Lidar from Environment Agency 2019
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