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A 6cm Iron Age bronze boar found at Gaer Fawr hillfort, Guilsfield before 1833 & published by Barnwell in Arch.Camb. 1871, displaying'..a wonderful amount of fidelity and spirit'

Probably mounted as a helmet emblem.

Gaer Fawr survey by &

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2022-08-05

Old Winchester Iron Age hillfort, located on a chalk spur of the South Downs with extensive views. Within the fort are 3 Bronze Age bowl barrows & possible pond barrow, more barrows outside the western entrance, shown chalk-covered in the artist’s impression.

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2021-05-05



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

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

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

What would you pick as the most outstanding archaeological site in Scotland?
The French cartographer, J.D. Barbié du Bocage, chose to celebrate Craig Phadrig hillfort, near Inverness, on his 1790 map L’Écosse avec ses Isles. https://t.co/KWTCNES7DU

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2019-03-25

(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