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Something old for - Samuel Meyrick and Charles Smith's (1815) 'Briton of the Interior' standing in front of what all fans of Scottish hillforts will recognise instantly as the White Caterthun. (1/2)

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2020-04-29

Had forgotten how much I like the dramatic reconstructions of the late great In this pic a Scot is chased towards a deserted by two Picts NW scotland 7th c AD

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2020-04-22

A Celtiberian chieftain and warrior break through the Roman siege of N Spain in 133 BC - another epic reconstruction by (from 1986)

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2020-04-22

2nd tweet about Ajdovscina, and final for today (exhausted). On top of the hill, we have the main hillfort. The light blue marked hillfort is harder to see, but its there. I am not sure about that extension - need to see it on the ground.

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2020-04-16

Thinking about future outings, so I've had a quick look in the and it seems there's plenty to keep me busy - this is just a small section (nr Milton Abbot) for Fancied a bit of straight up this time, so this is all in

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2020-04-08

There are nice coincidences in the layouts of these hillforts, but also the locations are very similar. Compare Coto Redondo Hillforts vs The Caterthuns!

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2020-04-08

We have a trio of Paul Nash paintings for Left: 'Wood on the Downs' (Ivinghoe Beacon), oil on canvas, 1930. Right top: 'Maiden Castle', watercolour, red chalk and pencil on paper, early 1940s, and underneath, 'Maiden Castle', no date/materials given.

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2020-04-08

(5/7) The sequence also reveals the abandonment in the 1st c. BC. Was the involved in this process? Since 2017 we have been studying some located nearby, but the connection between them and the Late Iron Age site was unclear

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2020-04-08

Day 23 of my Wiltshire tour by photo - this is the magnificent hillfort of Bratton Castle, with the Westbury White Horse craved into the hillside. From this angle you can really see the detail of the ramparts wrapped around the hill

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2020-04-08

'It may indeed be likened to an enormous many-limbed organism of an antediluvian time - partaking of the cephalopod in shape - lying lifeless, and covered with a thin green cloth, which hides its substance, while revealing its contour.'
Credits in comments.

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2020-03-25

Some nice pictures of soil marks of the hillfort in Chruścin by Wiesław Stępień. Taken before A2 Motorway was build. The chronology of the hillfort is unknown. It wasn't excavated yet. Probably early Iron Age or early Middle Ages.

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2020-03-25

British Camp a magnificent screenprint of the hillfort by the talented Tia Lambert on For more of Tia's work see:

https://t.co/PdtKbp7X5v

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2020-01-29

One of my favourite paintings of a is by one of my favourite artists: Mount Caburn (1935) by – a view of (which, minus the horse-drawn ploughs, is as just as familiar today) that had from his studio

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2019-10-30

It's (yay!) and to celebrate another form of monumental loveliness here's the slight 0.3ha enclosure emerging in very low sunlight photo: (c) NMR 15856/13

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2019-08-28

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

'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

(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

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