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a small hillfort in the Eifel near Bad Münstereifel, which only covers an area of about half a hectare and is probably unpublished so far.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

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).

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2020-09-15

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

Eggardon Hill beloved of artists, daydreamers and poets . And sheep.

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2020-08-05

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

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.

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2020-07-15

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

Particular hillfort defences a little more like this local hillfort -

https://t.co/VCQ1zq43IB

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2020-06-03

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

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.

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2020-05-27

I was really surprised that my last tweet about possible hillfort I found reached so much interest. For this week some more visualisations of the alleged fort.
https://t.co/bIvSbPPuct

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2020-05-27

Some were much bigger like those multivallate forts in Kiełpin.

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2020-05-13

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

Good time for a retrospective of 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 SAMDev plan.

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2020-04-19

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