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New settlement models from the Iberian Peninsula. From left to right: hillfort of the Castro cultural (village), Hispano-Celtic oppida (town, large town and city) and southern Iberian oppidum (large city).
#hillfortwednesday Eggardon Hill beloved of artists, daydreamers and poets . And sheep.
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 #HillfortsWednesday
7 Inside the hillfort, under the sand, a monumental and well preserved stone-built roundhouse 13m in diameter was uncovered, along with finds of late prehistoric and roman date.
Extended 2019 data from @EnvAgencyGeomat #LiDAR means more material for #HillfortsWednesday. Now I can see all of the #hillforts / #enclosures in this corner of SE #Dartmoor *and* a bonus mystery ditch! 1/n
@PaulTubb1 Particular hillfort defences a little more like this local hillfort -
https://t.co/VCQ1zq43IB
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 #HillfortsWednesday, 2 further sites! ⤵️
#HillfortsWednesday Welsh hillforts today are usually peaceful, grassy places forming part of the landscape but in prehistory they were crowded with people and structures & encircled with fresh stone walls. This basic 2015 diagram peels back the grass to show what lies beneath.
I was really surprised that my last tweet about possible hillfort I found reached so much interest. For this week #hillfortswednesday some more #lidar visualisations of the alleged fort.
https://t.co/bIvSbPPuct
Some were much bigger like those multivallate forts in Kiełpin.
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Something old for #HillfortsWednesday - 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)
Had forgotten how much I like the dramatic reconstructions of the late great #AngusMcBride. In this pic a Scot is chased towards a deserted #IronAge #Broch by two Picts NW scotland 7th c AD
#Broch #HillfortsWednesday #stayindoors !
A Celtiberian chieftain and warrior break through the Roman siege of #Numantia N Spain in 133 BC - another epic reconstruction by #AngusMcBride (from 1986)
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Good time for a retrospective of @johnswogger cartoons about Old Oswestry debacle. 'Who's Standing up for Old Oswestry?' marked 1st Hillfort Hug in 2015 as we fought land allocation near hillfort in #shropshire SAMDev plan. #heritage #planning #engagement #campaign #cartoons
#HillfortsWednesday 2nd tweet about #hillfort Ajdovscina, #Slovenia 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.
Thinking about future outings, so I've had a quick look in the #TamarValley and it seems there's plenty to keep me busy - this is just a small section (nr Milton Abbot) for #HillfortsWednesday. Fancied a bit of straight up #cartography this time, so this is all in #QGIS.
We have a trio of Paul Nash paintings for #HillFortsWednesday. 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.
'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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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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@OldOswestryFort FANTASTIC ! Brilliant news 👍👍👍 Sometimes fighting for a #hillfort does indeed bring excellent results !! 😁😁😁