So last week, we were able to camp 20m away from a monument that survives as a buried feature now visible as a cropmark. The site represents a multi-vallate defended site likely to be late 1st millennium BC or early 1st millennium AD.
#Coldstream #Borders #HillfortsWednesday .
For some reason (I can't think why) it seems appropriate to retweet this today...🤔
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The view from the summit of Dunadd Fort in Argyll. Occupied since the Iron Age, the fort became a royal power centre of the Gaelic kings of Dál Riata during the early medieval period. #HillfortsWednesday 📸 My own.
Lovely to see this classic haymeadow spring into life, overlooked by Little Solsbury Hill #HillfortsWednesday
Dùn Garbhlaich
A small D shaped stone built enclosure. The outer face is very well preserved. One of many undated forts which surround the low lying and fertile areas around Beauly.
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No roads lead to the remote Dun Geilbt at the southern end of #IsleOfSkye so we kayaked out to see it ... #HillFortsWednesday ... a dramatic location.
More info on The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones here megalithic.co.uk/article.php?si…
For #HillfortsWednesday here’s a rather lovely recreation of a Late Iron Age village set within the hillfort of St Gregory's Hill #Northumberland N'land National Park 🤩
🖼 by the late great Victor Ambrus for the 2006 book *Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park*
Site of a Maori fortified settlement built on top of the largest volcanic cone in Auckland. Extensive terracing cut into its sides where settlement houses were built and other activities undertaken. #HillfortsWednesday
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There are worse places to eat your lunch than in the excavated remains of an Iron Age roundhouse, amid the grass and wild flowers and spectacular views of Dinas Dinlle hillfort, #NorthWales .
📷 last week
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Liddington Castle. Always see this on the skyline from the M4 overlooking Swindon and curious to visit.
The whippet insisted (he loves a hillfort) so I could not resist…. #hillfortswednesday
#HillfortsWednesday The huge - but rather overgrown - eastern entrance into Wapley Hill fort, #Herefordshire , now in the care of Forestry England
📷 Basking in the sunshine last week
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Grovely Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in the parish of Steeple Langford, in #Wiltshire . The remaining ramparts stand approximately 3.2 m high, with 1.5 m deep ditches, although ploughing has damaged the earthworks.
#Archaeology #History
#HillfortsWednesday & we've got the hill, tick ✅ - the fort? well almost
These are the Cross Dykes on Fontmell Down, just south of Shaftesbury (and with great views over it)
More on Historic England >>>
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#hillfortsWednesday DEM of Dunnottar Castle - 681 and 694 AD the Annals of Ulster record ‘Obesessio duin Foither’ - a siege at Dunnottar.
It is -still!- #HillfortsWednesday - hoorah. This week we showcase Park Law, Sourhope Valley, near Kirk Yetholm in the #ScottishBorders . This is a large hillfort, one of 8 in the valley. Traces of stone-founded round-houses and walled yards can be seen at the east end.