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Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello, we're the Durotriges Project 👋

If you're here for updates on prehistoric Dorset, archaeology info or just to look at pictures of Iron Age / Roman artefacts, we hope you'll find something of interest

#Durotriges25

⚠️ warning: may contain random references to #DoctorWho and #HypocaustGate

A complete Late Iron Age Black Burnished Ware pot from the #Durotriges24 excavation

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A #Roman copper alloy plaque with Victory carrying a trophy including shields and two trumpets (carnyxes)

Probably commemorating triumph over the poor Silures in the late 1st century AD

From Caerleon © Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales CC BY-SA 4.0

For more see
images.museumwales.ac.uk

#FindsFriday

Bronze plaque with a relief image of a winged female personification of Victory carrying a trophy of armour, shields, trumpets and a helmet fixed to a pole slung over her right shoulder

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tracconference.bsky.social @tracconference.bsky.social · 1d

Our opening keynote is 'Roman Archaeologies 2025: Reflections on Theory and Practice' by Professor Dominik Meschek! (abstract in link)

We're rather excited for this!

www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20...

TRAC-TiDA 2025

Registration now open! We are pleased to announce that the The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, TRAC-TiDA 2025 will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format thro…

www.trac.org.uk

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16h

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Totally 😊

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 20h

In the footsteps of Professor Daryll Forde's 1930s excavations of Pendinas #hillfort, #Aberystwyth, this lunchtime, recceing a guided walk

This press photo from 1934 shows the dapper 32 yr old Prof (sitting, right) on the south gate excavation, looking out over the very same view of Penparcau 🛖

A 1934 photo of an excavation in the foreground, held up against the modern day view across a valley & village in the background

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22h

It's brilliant isn't it 😊

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely 😊

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Good old Tuart

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

Always nice to bump into some of your favourite people in Waterstones Piccadilly
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social

A photo of a bookshelf with books about British Roman history

A photo of a bookshelf with a large array of hardback books

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

Bethan's Rock to be displayed the soon to be reopening @poolemuseum.bsky.social

Huzzah 😊🥳

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bethan's Rock: Beloved exhibit returns to revamped Poole Museum

The museum said Bethan's

www.bbc.co.uk

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Derek Pitman @derekpitman.bsky.social · 12d

@lawrence-shaw.bsky.social and I have been working on a little project….. youtu.be/CgE5rCsPG6Y?...

COMING SOON! Career in Ruins are back in the field

YouTube video by Career in Ruins

youtu.be

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Lawrence Shaw @lawrence-shaw.bsky.social · 5d

We’re thrilled (and a little bit stunned!) to share that Career in Ruins has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025. We’re also proud just to be alongside such inspiring projects.

#Archaeology #ArchaeologyAwards #CareerInRuins #PublicArchaeology

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Nance @nancesw.bsky.social · 7d

Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

For #HillfortsWednesday, here's Segsbury Camp (also known as Letcombe Castle) #Oxfordshire

A gloriously tactile painting of the hillfort by the supremely talented @annadillon.bsky.social from 2010

annadillon.com/segsbury.html

For more of her amazing work see: annadillon.com 😊👍

A painting of the grass and tree covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with brooding clouds in the distance

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 1d

St Catherine's Hill iron age fort, with the Saxon city of Winchester behind.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 3d

Lorica hamata.
Iron Age / Roman mail armour.
Every other ring individually riveted.
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Close up of about a square foot of reproduction Roman/Iron Age mail armour.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

And a lovely place to be at sundown

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James Donald @stirlingfellow.bsky.social · 1d

Despite absence of an actual Hillfort, there is link enough I hope for #hillfortsWednesday - Ackling Dyke is the mighty Roman thoroughfare that links Old Sarum and Badbury Rings, and they both count. Just in time for sunset …

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely - haven't been to Croft Ambrey in years !

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 1d

All these posts about #HillfortsWednesday made me think I should check out Croft Ambrey hillfort in Herefordshire. Plenty of hill !

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

You're absolutely welcome 😊

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire

Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍

www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort bisected by a modern road from the air looking to the cloudless sky of the horizon

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 1d

For #HillfortsWednesday, a plan of the early medieval hillfort of Grzybowo, Poland, annotated with the locations of artefacts discovered there. Numismatic items, lead weights and the beam from a set of scales indicate it was a place of thriving trade.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Topographic plan of an irregular circle-shaped hill annotated with areas excavated and objects found there such as arrowheads, horse shoes and lead weights.

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 2d

I'd never go for a peaceful walk to a hillfort on a Tuesday because they must all be being buzzed by drones making videos for #HillfortsWednesday.

Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 2d

A clip of Longcroft for #HillfortsWednesday - a complex hillfort to the east of #Oxton in the #ScottishBorders. It had 3 periods of construction that have created four ramparts with intermediate ditches. The traces of several round houses can also be seen.

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