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 chalk hills projecting northwards from the main line of the @ChilternsAONB escarpment. (1/5) https://twitter.com/Durotrigesdig/status/1197052801618259968

The hillfort itself is thought to date to the Late Bronze Age on the basis of pottery and a Wilburton type sword (illegally metal-detected, thankfully recovered.) The ramparts survive only as slight earthworks today; it has been suggested they were never finished... (2/5)

... or were slighted very soon after construction. (Frere & Cotton 1968 has a lovely sarky comment about the fact they may have been built by "amateurs"... whatever an amateur hillfort builder is...) (3/5)
(photo credit: John Morris @ChilternWoods)

There is a second rampart around the southern edge. Elsewhere in the vicinity are numerous barrows, lynchets, cross-ridge dykes, and parts of Grim's Ditch... an amazing prehistoric landscape, largely open access thanks to the @East_England_NT; the start of @TheRidgeway1972 (4/5)

Come have an explore around our #LiDAR landscape over at Sketchfab:
https://skfb.ly/6MNFN 
and log onto the #Chilforts #CitizenScience portal to explore the whole @HeritageFundL_S funded1400 km2 LiDAR dataset with me and @Hillfortian : http://bit.ly/ChilternsLiDAR  (5/5)

I also think there might be a #Roman fort/marching camp in here... anyone else spot it?