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Two excellent recreations of the E gate of Old Sarum hillfort for

1) c 100 BC (severed heads optional)

2) AD 552 Cynric fighting the Britons (at *Searobyrig*)

Both © Peter Dunn / Historic England for the guide

https://t.co/QrLK8SYgz3

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2023-03-08

In the hillfort of the Muro da Cidade de Medeiros (#Galicia), a warrior married a "moura" (an Otherworldy woman). After giving its inhabitants the vine plant as a gift, she moved with her husband to Quinta do Peru, giving rise to a rich family.

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2023-01-20

Interested to see how our illustrator, Jennie Anderson, created this reconstruction of Wilbury Hill Camp Hillfort in Hertfordshire? Our latest Painting the Past YouTube episode explores how she put it together using digital watercolours.🎨

📽️https://t.co/JuF6Tgz8nv

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2023-01-14

The fivefold ramparts of Old Oswestry hillfort survive today in places up to 6m high

Cross section through the earthworks at the W entrance © Liam Wales 2006 / Historic England for the signboards and guide

https://t.co/MLCE61lJmT

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2023-01-11

The defended enclosure / promontory fort / hillfort of Barsalloch in its Iron Age glory days

A fantastic recreation © for the signboard 🤩

For more of their stunning work see https://t.co/jQuwArTEGG

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2022-11-16

Just in case you wondered why this hill was chosen for Cley Hill here is the wider topographic view.
An amazing commanding position!
The lower left is the Longleat estate.

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2022-09-21

Dunmore hillfort, Perthshire, Chesters and Traprain in East Lothian (Reconstruction suggestions)

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2022-09-03

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


St Aengus, Burt, Co Donegal. Bands of clerestory glazing by Helen Moloney who worked with architect Liam McCormick for over 2 decades. Dubbed by the architect as his 'pagan building', exterior evokes nearby hillfort Grianán of Aileach.

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2022-07-24

The Trundle (meaning 'A circle'), is an Iron Age on St Roche's Hill, Chichester, West Sussex and contains a Neolithic Causewayed enclosure (The inner circle), along with a demolished 14C chapel.

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2022-06-29

For a gorgeous recreation of Iron Age buildings in the SW corner of Maiden Castle © Paul Birkbeck / English Heritage 🤩

This hillfort is only a few km from the dig site (where we're still hoping to find a roundhouse!) 🤞

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2022-06-29


Moel Fenlli lies just south of Moel Famau, highest point of the Clwydian Range, above Bwlch Pen Barras on a prominent hill.

It is a multivallate hillfort with extensive ramparts on the north and east but with slight defences to the south.

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2022-06-08

Currently writing about the mighty Gaer Fawr at Guilsfield nr Welshpool & revisiting the simply excellent 2009 report by 👏

Very hard not to get excited by a hachured plan of the north-east gateway & its 38m long corridor approach 🤩(c)RCAHMW

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2022-05-16


Inspired by the statues of Gallaecian warriors and objects found in Galician and Portuguese artist Miguel Torre has recreated the appearance of a "corono" (chieftain) from Southern during the Iron Age.

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2022-05-04

 Defence: the everyday weapon - the slingshot - was deadly in the right hands... 'Ostorius [Scapula] led his enthusiastic soldiers forward.. and reached the rampart. But then, in an exchange of missiles, they came off worse in wounds and casualties' (Tacitus)

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2022-03-02

A brilliant series of images originally used on the website for Maiden Castle to illustrate the possible Roman attack in AD 44 (with and without palisade) © Paul Birkbeck / English Heritage

https://t.co/1DZFi2f9Lo

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2022-02-23

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle notes in AD 552 *Cynric fought against the Britons at Searobyrig [Old Sarum] and put the Britons to flight*

As Cynric is a British name this may be a hazy remembrance of post Roman civil conflict

Pic © Peter Dunn / Historic England

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2022-02-09

The East gate to Old Sarum hillfort imaginatively recreated by Peter Dunn for

Before you ask, archaeological evidence for severed heads and totem poles is *limited* but adds an atmosphere

The Iron Age welcome appears less friendly than today 😱

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2022-02-09

“Avenue traversant Plateau de A4

I stopped in my tracks and gazed at this tree-lined avenue. Since my earliest childhood I can recall many moments spent playing on ancient settlements and hillforts.

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2022-02-05

Oh, it's !
Look at that beauty close to the Neusiedlersee, Austria. 1st Phase probably Urnfield period. Look at the Hallstatt Burial Mounds within the later (medieval?) ramparts.

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2022-01-27