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Don’t forget Danebury hillfort and Hampshire CC’s commissioned work LOVE the storage pits.

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2021-01-20

Grey wash drawing, Cley Hill Camp, c 1920, by E J Burrow. And Lidar from Environment Agency 2019

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2021-01-06

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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2020-12-09

Today Banbury hillfort is largely inaccessible and damaged by centuries of agricultural attrition. The ramparts survive in places to 2m high and the site still dominates the Stour Valley

It has never been excavated

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2020-12-09

This week's is also & the lines of Torres Vedras.

Tomorrow night (for free) join & Bob Burnham, will present 'The Destruction of Arruda, The Light Division out of Control'

For a free place, email: i_j_brewer.com

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2020-12-09

Let's see in this recreation how a northern sweat lodge could have been. Sauna of O Sarridal (Cedeira. By Pablo Aparicio / Jorge García de Pedro / AXA Archaeology

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2020-12-09



As Austria released some new lidar data - hillforts from Austria. 1st will be Konigsberg that looks over valley of river Slum in Styria in S parts of Around the landscape of this hillfort there is a lot of prehistoric mounds.

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2020-12-02

A quick visit yesterday (past) Norton Camp Hillfort, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. Low elevation site, on the end of a low rise of land. to R/British occupation enclosure w/well described to the site (no time for exploration tho' ☹️).

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2020-12-02

Just seen tweet about reconstruction drawings. The info board at Caesar’s Camp has this one of the eastern entrance.

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2020-11-25

Using LiDAR, geophysics and GPR results begin to recreate Buckland Rings hillfort in its Iron Age heyday

https://t.co/4U5l26ymfs

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2020-11-11

How about the beautiful image of Welshbury hillfort located in the Forest of Dean. This incredible site also have evidence of very early lime coppicing taking place, something which continues to be managed today .

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2020-10-28

We have car stickers and a flag...

...tomorrow the world !!!

🤣

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2020-10-28

One of the finest depictions of the / is also by one of our favourite artists, Eric Ravilious, a view from his studio in 1935 which, minus the horse-drawn ploughs, is as just as familiar today 🤩

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2020-09-30

The Wrekin Iron Age Hillfort, likely capital of the Cornovii tribe, thought taken by force c. AD48-50 then abandoned. It is unusual with two separate enclosures. The outer & inner NE entrances are named Hell Gate & Heaven Gate respectively

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2020-09-23

Today a small hillfort in the Eifel near Bad Münstereifel, which only covers an area of about half a hectare and is probably unpublished so far. The chronology is therefore completely unclear.

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2020-09-16

The hillfort in Kreuzweingarten dates back to the first half of the 1st century BC and is associated with the Celtic tribe of the Eburones. Walls and ditches have been excellently preserved, although the ridge was the scene of fierce battles during WW2.

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2020-08-26

Not a photogenic site from the air, but our survey of the early medieval hillfort of Dundurn revealed a much more complex system of enclosure than had previously been identified. Excavations in the 70's even produced a leather shoe!! https://t.co/FNDExdk6On

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2020-08-05

Extended 2019 data from means more material for Now I can see all of the / in this corner of SE *and* a bonus mystery ditch! 1/n

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2020-07-08

2/3 Recorded by us from the air & ground, a terrace/infilled ditch defining the west side of the fort is clearly visible, as are at least 20 hut platforms. https://t.co/YzEiAB7uLN The ridge also has other archaeological treasures for 2 further sites! ⤵️

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2020-06-03

following post we're staying in Ceredigion with this tiny little gem, Cnwc y Bugail hillfort. One I pass on my run every few days. Here also an aerial from and reconstruction by https://t.co/MdyRE9ueTm

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2020-05-27