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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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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
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⚠️ warning: may contain random references to #DoctorWho and #HypocaustGate
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
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⚠️ warning: may contain random references to #DoctorWho and #HypocaustGate
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#HillfortsWednesday #Celtic: Excavations at Tre'r Ceiri have produced finds mainly of Roman pottery, showing that they traded with the Romans. During the final period of occupation the fort may have been used as a refuge, not from the Romans but from Irish raiders.
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
#HillfortsWednesday #Celtic: Excavations at Tre'r Ceiri have produced finds mainly of Roman pottery, showing that they traded with the Romans. During the final period of occupation the fort may have been used as a refuge, not from the Romans but from Irish raiders.
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Sneaking Rispain Camp in for #HillfortsWednesday as it is not listed on the Atlas, and we define it as a settlement - but the ditches are absolutely MASSIVE
First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s
Photos from my visit yesterday
First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s
Photos from my visit yesterday
February 11, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Sneaking Rispain Camp in for #HillfortsWednesday as it is not listed on the Atlas, and we define it as a settlement - but the ditches are absolutely MASSIVE
First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s
Photos from my visit yesterday
First thought to be a Roman site, then medieval it was revealed as Iron Age following excavation in the 1970s
Photos from my visit yesterday
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The Viking-period hillfort Borg on Björkö/Birka in the 1890’s, captured by the legendary Swedish field archaeologist and later Professor in ethnography Hjalmar Stolpe (using wife and daughter as scale bars…)
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
February 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The Viking-period hillfort Borg on Björkö/Birka in the 1890’s, captured by the legendary Swedish field archaeologist and later Professor in ethnography Hjalmar Stolpe (using wife and daughter as scale bars…)
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
A magnetometry survey of Abbotsbury Castle hillfort #Dorset has shown that there are, in the SE corner of the enclosure, a series of Iron Age roundhouse platforms with collapsed daub walls, postholes and storage pits 🤩
11 have so far been identified
© Dave Stewart 2014
#HillfortsWednesday
11 have so far been identified
© Dave Stewart 2014
#HillfortsWednesday
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
A magnetometry survey of Abbotsbury Castle hillfort #Dorset has shown that there are, in the SE corner of the enclosure, a series of Iron Age roundhouse platforms with collapsed daub walls, postholes and storage pits 🤩
11 have so far been identified
© Dave Stewart 2014
#HillfortsWednesday
11 have so far been identified
© Dave Stewart 2014
#HillfortsWednesday
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#HillfortsWednesday
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
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#Archaeology #History #Cymru
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#Archaeology #History #Cymru
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
#HillfortsWednesday
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
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#Archaeology #History #Cymru
Pen-y-crug is a large, oval, multivallate #hillfort which encloses the summit of a prominent, isolated hill about 2km north-west of the confluence of the rivers Usk and Honddu at #Brecon #Wales
📸 @drtobydriver.bsky.social
#Archaeology #History #Cymru
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#HillfortsWednesday #Celtic: Tre'r Ceiri was probably constructed in the late #IronAge and remained in use until the 4th century AD. The earliest defences enclosed an Early Bronze Age (2000-1100 BC) burial cairn on the summit and may have housed 100 people living in about 20 houses.
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February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
#HillfortsWednesday #Celtic: Tre'r Ceiri was probably constructed in the late #IronAge and remained in use until the 4th century AD. The earliest defences enclosed an Early Bronze Age (2000-1100 BC) burial cairn on the summit and may have housed 100 people living in about 20 houses.
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Caer Bach - a Celtic hillfort of indeterminate age, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen; in Conwy County, Wales; courtesy of Llywelyn2000. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday
February 11, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Caer Bach - a Celtic hillfort of indeterminate age, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen; in Conwy County, Wales; courtesy of Llywelyn2000. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday
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How exciting - I have always wanted to see these altars, the one featuring Sol is particularly amazing!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
How exciting - I have always wanted to see these altars, the one featuring Sol is particularly amazing!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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#HillfortsWednesday Darnit
The iconic Brentor on the western edge of Dartmoor. Iron Age ramparts exist but the hillfort my never have been fully completed. The medieval church was begun in the C12th.
#HillfortWednesday
#Dartmoor
#HillfortWednesday
#Dartmoor
February 11, 2026 at 9:42 AM
#HillfortsWednesday Darnit
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#HillfortsWednesday #Celtic: Tre'r Ceiri is one of the most and best preserved #IronAge hillforts in Britain. The impressive dry-stone ramparts that enclose it survive to near their full height of 3.5 metres in many places. The 2.5 hectare fort contains the remains of over 150 huts.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:59 AM
#HillfortsWednesday #Celtic: Tre'r Ceiri is one of the most and best preserved #IronAge hillforts in Britain. The impressive dry-stone ramparts that enclose it survive to near their full height of 3.5 metres in many places. The 2.5 hectare fort contains the remains of over 150 huts.
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We have so many questions
We sent #CuratorRob to a professional Networking event at the Novium Museum, Chichester, yesterday and he represented the Palace by wearing a prawn hat. 🤦
February 11, 2026 at 10:51 AM
We have so many questions
Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Some Iron Age ramparty goodness from Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, high above the villages of West #Dorset
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here looking NW along the coast to West Bay and Bridport and SW along Chesil Beach to Weymouth and Portland
We love it here
📷 Feb 2023
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
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February 11, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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And to do a bit of shameless self-promo, I talk all about Ingleborough (and how it is more interesting than a hillfort) in my new book: LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
It forms the centre of the chapter on 'Dunutinga'
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
It forms the centre of the chapter on 'Dunutinga'
Little Kingdoms
Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 AM
And to do a bit of shameless self-promo, I talk all about Ingleborough (and how it is more interesting than a hillfort) in my new book: LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
It forms the centre of the chapter on 'Dunutinga'
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
It forms the centre of the chapter on 'Dunutinga'
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Some reading:
etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12... Walker's smashing 2022 thesis on post-Roman Cumbria
Johnson's Ingleborough: Landscape & History (2008) is a superb read too, as are his other works: New Light on the Dark Ages in North Craven (2019) and associated IAG research papers
etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12... Walker's smashing 2022 thesis on post-Roman Cumbria
Johnson's Ingleborough: Landscape & History (2008) is a superb read too, as are his other works: New Light on the Dark Ages in North Craven (2019) and associated IAG research papers
February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Some reading:
etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12... Walker's smashing 2022 thesis on post-Roman Cumbria
Johnson's Ingleborough: Landscape & History (2008) is a superb read too, as are his other works: New Light on the Dark Ages in North Craven (2019) and associated IAG research papers
etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12... Walker's smashing 2022 thesis on post-Roman Cumbria
Johnson's Ingleborough: Landscape & History (2008) is a superb read too, as are his other works: New Light on the Dark Ages in North Craven (2019) and associated IAG research papers
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So if it isn't a hillfort, what exactly is Ingleborough?
Thanks to the great work of David Johnson, Yvonne Luke, and the researchers at IAG www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org, we know it to be an important, multi-period site, with evidence from the Neolithic to the post-Roman period
Thanks to the great work of David Johnson, Yvonne Luke, and the researchers at IAG www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org, we know it to be an important, multi-period site, with evidence from the Neolithic to the post-Roman period
Ingleborough Archaeology Group | archaeology
The Ingleborough Archaeology Group exists to further research and understanding of our historic heritage through archival research and archaeological investigation
www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 AM
So if it isn't a hillfort, what exactly is Ingleborough?
Thanks to the great work of David Johnson, Yvonne Luke, and the researchers at IAG www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org, we know it to be an important, multi-period site, with evidence from the Neolithic to the post-Roman period
Thanks to the great work of David Johnson, Yvonne Luke, and the researchers at IAG www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org, we know it to be an important, multi-period site, with evidence from the Neolithic to the post-Roman period
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Well situated and tall, offering a strategic position, it's no wonder that folk have believed Ingleborough to be a hillfort. It's even really flat on top and has a number of streams and links to springs along the slopes
The latest edition of a Shire Archaeology book even lists it as a hillfort!
The latest edition of a Shire Archaeology book even lists it as a hillfort!
February 11, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Well situated and tall, offering a strategic position, it's no wonder that folk have believed Ingleborough to be a hillfort. It's even really flat on top and has a number of streams and links to springs along the slopes
The latest edition of a Shire Archaeology book even lists it as a hillfort!
The latest edition of a Shire Archaeology book even lists it as a hillfort!
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#HillfortsWednesday & #ReliefWednesday, rolled into one, with this neat interpretation panel at Bury Ditches. Though parts of the site are plain to the eye, it can be difficult to picture the whole, given the scrub and surrounding plantation. This really helps. #Shropshire
📷 My own, from 2020
📷 My own, from 2020
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 AM
#HillfortsWednesday & #ReliefWednesday, rolled into one, with this neat interpretation panel at Bury Ditches. Though parts of the site are plain to the eye, it can be difficult to picture the whole, given the scrub and surrounding plantation. This really helps. #Shropshire
📷 My own, from 2020
📷 My own, from 2020
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#HillfortsWednesday Peace Knowe, Nr Ochiltree, Linlithgow, West Lothian
ancientmonuments.uk/125978-peace...
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Peace Knowe,fort, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Peace Knowe,fort is a Scheduled Monument in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this ...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
#HillfortsWednesday Peace Knowe, Nr Ochiltree, Linlithgow, West Lothian
ancientmonuments.uk/125978-peace...
ancientmonuments.uk/125978-peace...
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Thought I'd throw my hat into the cairn-ring of #HillfortsWednesday
But paradoxically, I want to talk about Ingleborough, a large hill (732m) in the Yorkshire Dales that, while often believed to be a hillfort, actually isn't!
But paradoxically, I want to talk about Ingleborough, a large hill (732m) in the Yorkshire Dales that, while often believed to be a hillfort, actually isn't!
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Thought I'd throw my hat into the cairn-ring of #HillfortsWednesday
But paradoxically, I want to talk about Ingleborough, a large hill (732m) in the Yorkshire Dales that, while often believed to be a hillfort, actually isn't!
But paradoxically, I want to talk about Ingleborough, a large hill (732m) in the Yorkshire Dales that, while often believed to be a hillfort, actually isn't!
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#HillfortsWednesday & Earls Hill in Shropshire looking beautiful in autumn 😍
See more Hillforts from Shropshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...
See more Hillforts from Shropshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 AM
#HillfortsWednesday & Earls Hill in Shropshire looking beautiful in autumn 😍
See more Hillforts from Shropshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...
See more Hillforts from Shropshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjB...
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The view the other way towards Lyme Regis is stunning! What a place to ‘fort’.
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
The view the other way towards Lyme Regis is stunning! What a place to ‘fort’.
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A wall around the Andorsrud hillfort in Øvre Eiker in Buskerud, Norway (Photo: Kristine Friis Jørgensen). There are c. 450 hillforts in Norway. Most Norwegian hillforts are from the Late Roman Period to the end of the Migration Period, c. 200-600. #HillfortsWednesday
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 AM
A wall around the Andorsrud hillfort in Øvre Eiker in Buskerud, Norway (Photo: Kristine Friis Jørgensen). There are c. 450 hillforts in Norway. Most Norwegian hillforts are from the Late Roman Period to the end of the Migration Period, c. 200-600. #HillfortsWednesday
An excellent thread on the curious and enigmatic Ingleborough for #HillfortsWednesday (other days are available) 👇👇👇
Thought I'd throw my hat into the cairn-ring of #HillfortsWednesday
But paradoxically, I want to talk about Ingleborough, a large hill (732m) in the Yorkshire Dales that, while often believed to be a hillfort, actually isn't!
But paradoxically, I want to talk about Ingleborough, a large hill (732m) in the Yorkshire Dales that, while often believed to be a hillfort, actually isn't!
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 AM
An excellent thread on the curious and enigmatic Ingleborough for #HillfortsWednesday (other days are available) 👇👇👇
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Finally it's #HillfortsWednesday! 🍻
Feast your eyes on this absolutely stonking Lidar of Llanmelin Wood hillfort in SE Wales 😮🤩
This overgrown & partly wooded fort rarely shows so well. The long 1930s trenches of V E Nash-Williams can be made out 🧐
Burials may indicate a mortuary function 💀🤔
Feast your eyes on this absolutely stonking Lidar of Llanmelin Wood hillfort in SE Wales 😮🤩
This overgrown & partly wooded fort rarely shows so well. The long 1930s trenches of V E Nash-Williams can be made out 🧐
Burials may indicate a mortuary function 💀🤔
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Finally it's #HillfortsWednesday! 🍻
Feast your eyes on this absolutely stonking Lidar of Llanmelin Wood hillfort in SE Wales 😮🤩
This overgrown & partly wooded fort rarely shows so well. The long 1930s trenches of V E Nash-Williams can be made out 🧐
Burials may indicate a mortuary function 💀🤔
Feast your eyes on this absolutely stonking Lidar of Llanmelin Wood hillfort in SE Wales 😮🤩
This overgrown & partly wooded fort rarely shows so well. The long 1930s trenches of V E Nash-Williams can be made out 🧐
Burials may indicate a mortuary function 💀🤔