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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

In the hillfort of the Muro da Cidade de Medeiros, a warrior married a "moura". After giving its inhabitants the vine plant as a gift, she moved with her husband to Quinta do Peru, giving rise to a rich family.

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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

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

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2021-01-20

Rubers Law (Scottish Borders) - site of Roman signal station and probable early med 'nuclear' hillfort - ramparts include re-used Roman building stone. Would be great to see more work here! https://t.co/B5EVPvOc4m

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2021-01-13

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