#HillForts

Michael Kingsbury

Celtic_Films

Lots of people still hold to the old belief that the Roman Empire legions were "good in war", actually they were not and had to resort to starving women and

New Forest Archaeology

NewForestArch

Buckland Rings is one of our favourite New Forest #HillForts. Situated in the town of Lymington, it still has very well-preserved multiple ramparts and ditches.A geophys survey in 2017 identified

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

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

THE PRUSSIAN CRUSADE, PART 4Starting from where we left, in 1240 the Old Prussian clans that were still free were the Natangians, the Bartians, the Sambians and the Skalovians or

Ed Peveler

edpev7

Combining #HillfortsWednesday and #EarthDay2020 ! Many of our @ChilternsAONB @HeritageFundUK #Chilforts lie in magnificent chalk grassland, a rare habitat type with great ecological value.(Cowslips on the slopes of Ivinghoe Beacon

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

THE PRUSSIAN CRUSADE, PART 5Last time we left Prussia, the (((crusaders))) were plotting to advance on Sambia. Their force was 60000 strong, from Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary (including its Transylvanian

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,

Dr Wendy Morrison

Hillfortian

#PATC5 1/20 Good afternoon! Thanks @James_Dixon and @Lornarichardson for asking m’colleague @edpev7 and me to speak about our work on the @HeritageUK funded Beacons of the Past project. As Project

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

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,

The Sweet Cheat

thesweetcheat

A geographically-themed thread in response to @profdanhicks brilliant #MuseumsUnlocked idea, today is Neolithic and Bronze sites of the UK. Starting in the far southwest, this is Bant's Carn on St