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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

(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