Let's spice #HillfortsWednesday up and make it more European! I present you the 'Hรผnenburg' near Watenstedt in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany. This beautiful Hillfort was used from the Bronze Age (starting 1100 BC), through the Iron Age until the Early Medieval Ages. 1/2
It is #hillfortswednesday and so here is the Iron Age Segsbury Camp from 400ft up, resplendent in yellow yesterday. In the background is Devil's Punchbowl and to the left is The Ridgeway. (HedleyThorne.com - prints and wood framed pictures available)
Shipton Hill - a possible Iron Age hillfort. The southern side of the hill looking towards Lyme Bay. #HillfortsWednesday #Dorset #Archaeology
A well-trodden pathway along the ancient Ridgeway, the Iron Age hillfort of Ivinghoe Beacon rising beyond. In use since Bronze Age times, it was an ancient signal point. Most recently, we watched torches being lit at the summit for the 70th jubilee #HillfortsWednesday
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Castle an Dinas at St Columb Major. Dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850ft in diameter and standing 700ft above sea level.ย
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Cley Hill #IronAge #hillfort in Wiltshire.
You'll also find a #BronzeAge barrow near the trig point.
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It is #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.
Bank-top path at Segsbury, surrounded by magnificent display of buttercups. Wessex #HillfortsWednesday
It's #HillfortsWednesday today and so it had to be Wittenham Clumps again naturally! This picture is on sale at The Earth Trust for Oxfordshire Artweeks until Sunday. Oh and their latest podcast about art inspired by nature is here... earthtrust.org.uk/podcast-seasonโฆ Oxfordshire Artweeks
Rubers Law in the Scottish Borders is a distinctive hillfort composed of an upper citadel and lower terrace with a large outer enclosure. Bonchester Hill and Eildon Hill North (and probably more!) are easily visible from the summit. skfb.ly/oHoqU #HillfortsWednesday
Nairnshireโs Castle Findlay (not a castle!). A small oval hill fort. Partly vitrified with clearly visible outworks. Never excavated so its stories and dates remain to be discovered. Though small, it would have been an imposing presence above the Moray Firth. #HillfortsWednesday
Sitting on the lower slopes is Ruberslaw Wild Woods Camping
Our favourite site in the #ScottishBorders and a fabulous base for hillforting on a #HillfortsWednesday
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Here's the glorious 3ha multivallate Iron Age enclosure of Pilsdon Pen #Dorset looking NW ๐คฉ
Entrances at the N, SE and SW and a medieval rabbit warren at the centre
๐ท ยฉ David Hymans citizen science project #Airchaeology
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I get Hod Hill and Hambledon Hill #Hillforts , Dorset, Confused. So here are both of them!
#Hillforts Wednesday ( #Lidar Flyarounds)
#hillfortswednesday & its Castle Naze in the peak district
double ditches at the top of a steep gritstone escarpment at 427m above sea level
I get Hod Hill and Hambledon Hill #Hillforts , Dorset, Confused. So here are both of them ๐
#Hillforts Wednesday ( #Lidar Flyarounds)