#Hillfort

Manuel Gago

magago

Taboo! Do not build your actual house inside the 'croa' (the highest part of the fort) of a Galician hillfort. For example: the castro of Miñarzo in Lira (Carnota). Follow

Durotriges Project

Durotrigesdig

Here’s the glorious multivallate Iron Age hillfort (and Roman fort) atop #HodHill #Dorset @nationaltrust looking east in this aerial photo from 2016 © Jo and Sue CraneA thread to celebrate

Ed Peveler

edpev7

Showing off the lovely Ivinghoe Beacon again for #HillfortsWednesday after @Durotrigesdig covered it last week. An amazing site, visible from miles around, it is set on a large spur of

Durotriges Project

Durotrigesdig

We’re thinking about reconstruction paintings this #HillfortsWednesday and this one of the gate to Llanmelin Iron Age hillfort #Monmouthshire @museum_cardiff is one of our absolute favouritesPainted in 1940 by the

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😷

OwsWills

450 metres above the wild Irish Sea, on the exposed peak of Yr Eifl, clinging to the northwestern edge of the Llŷn Peninsula stands the vast, ancient ruin of Tre'r

Dr Rachel Pope

preshitorian

Two solid years of work on understanding how hillfort gates worked! Here’s a on the new paper by me, @rgsm84 @DrDerekHamilton Dr Eddie Rule & @johnswogger. Funded by @LivUni,

Wulfgar the Bard

WulfgarTheBard

Lots of posts these days about archaeology visible in air photos and lidar. Great to see so much free access to these resources. Many of these posts focus on the

OJT Heritage

DrOliverOGrady

Looking for a break from Twitter #toiletrollenvy? Here's an exquisite flint arrowhead found at #EastLomondHillfort #HillfortsWednesdayDrop/leaf-shaped reddish-orange flint Early Neolithic c.4000-3500 BC, found 5500-6000 years later thanks to volu

MonkeyOnTheMountainⓋ

Monk_Po

Good to see #LiDAR getting more use / coverage ... "Lost Bronze Age hill forts discovered in Devon" https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/lost-bronze-age-hill-forts-4091969. That's Windmill Clump https://www.heritagegatewa

Just (Dr) Rena

justrena

Home, and I've a mud splattered Juicy Couture backpack, brown spots on the shiny pink patent leather. Splattered because of adventures in Edinburgh and Haddington, veering between Leith's properous industrial

Manuel Gago

magago

Today in #hillfortsWednesday I will talk to you about one of the most enigmatic and spectacular fortresses on the Galician coast: Mount Pindo. It is a story of wolf queens,

Lynne Thomas

LynneWinThomas

May do a couple of posts on things to do in #Cardiff during #locallockdown. Number 1 - visit #CardiffBay and the #cardiffbaywetlands Number 2 - take a stroll around #cefnonnpark

Jamie Ashley

JamieAshle

#PrehistoryOfPenwith: A ThreadThe end of #Cornwall where I live, #Penwith, is incredibly rich in prehistory.I know very little about our standing stones/circles and fogous so this thread's here for me