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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 11h

For this week's #HillfortsWednesday the Northern Extension to British Camp in the Malverns courtesy of Bob Embleton #HillfortsWednesday #Archaeology #IronAge

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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 14h

Kororipo pā, commanding #Kerikeri basin. It is effectively a promontory fort, w. the inlet on three sides. From here Ngāpuhi Rangitira (chief) Hongi Hika mounted many successful campaigns, armed with muskets gained through trading w. Europeans. #Aotearoa #NewZealand #HillfortsWednesday
📷 my own.

Replica stockade and tower, at the neck entrance to the Pā.

The view across the basin, with the Stone Store - New Zealand's oldest surviving stone building - plainly visible. It was part of the second Church Missionary Society station in the country.

The main bank and ditch defences, with the interior and further defences beyond.

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 16h

I like that #HillfortsWednesday is a thing.

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 16h

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 15h

#HillfortsWednesday
A bank and ditch at Blackbury Camp, a defensive structure built in the 4th century BC. Tree covered and in a quiet part of Devon. Well worth a visit.

Several oak trees grow from a steep bank and ditch.

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Tony Hurley @tonyhurley.bsky.social · 16h

Looking east along the southern ramparts of Poundbury Camp Iron Age hillfort in Dorset. With a Bronze Age burial mound in the middle. #hillfortswednesday

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 17h

Hakoinen Castle dates to the medieval period in the 13th/14th century. It is on a very steep-sided rock by Lake Kernaala in the manner of the hill fort tradition. The top of the rock is 63 metres above the lake water level. Photo: Teemu Mönkkönen (CC BY 4.0). #HillfortsWednesday

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 16h

#HillfortsWednesday

Monkodonja/Moncodogno is a hill fort occupied about 1800–1200 BC during the Bronze Age,located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria.

#Archaeology #History #Croatia

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 14h

“I bet the wind will hold me up.”
No.
It won’t.

Idiot about to fall off a hillfort; Mam Tor c.1994.
#HillfortsWednesday

A foolhardy young man on the edge of a steep drop holding his bellowing white shirt open to catch the wind, and leaning dangerously far into it.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 15h

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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15h

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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16h

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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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 16h

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 16h

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 16h

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 1d

Prehistoric burial chamber and mound from Los Millares in Spain courtesy of fraboof. #TombTuesday #Archaeology

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#TombTuesday

Arthur's Stone, on the Gower peninsula.

The massive stone that caps this chamber was set atop several smaller uprights in an impressive feat of Stone Age engineering.

#Archaeology #History #Wales

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 1d

#TombTuesday
#Newgrange
#Neolithic

Built around 3,200 BCE, making it just over 5,000 years old.

Photos by me summer 2024

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 1d

West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 1d

An unusually well preserved Urnfield cremation tomb. Workers unearthed 30 Late Bronze Age funerary urns during installation of a drainage channel along a road between Moisburg and Immenbeck in Lower Saxony in Germany. The burials date between 1300 and 600 BC. #TombTuesday

An urn in a stone-lined pit with info board, scales and north arrow

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

Another of the old post cards of Breton antiquities I found recently in a second-hand shop. This one is of Dolmen De Kermario.
#TombTuesday #Brittany

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #CairnHoly

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

A 6th century pillar at St Llawddog's #Cilgerran #SirBenfro with a Latin inscription:

TRENEGUSSI FILI MACUTRENI HIC IACIT

'Trenegussus son of Ma(r)cus Treni, here he lies’

and one in og(h)am:

TRENAGUS MAQI MAQITRENI

'Trenagus son of Mac-Treni’

📷 Aug 2015

#EpigraphyTuesday #TombTuesday

A stone grave marker inscribed in Latin stands in a grass covered cemetery

A stone grave marker with church in the background

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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 2d

Mosaic floor with the head of Medusa, dated to the 2nd century AD, Archaeological Museum of Patras, Greece; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday

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man in the woods @maninthewoods.co.uk · 2d

I love the beautiful mottled reds in these mosaïcs from Rockboune Roman Villa in Wiltshire. They make me think of fallen leaves in the golden autumn sunlight. 🍂🍁✨

#MosaicMonday

Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday & the mosaics at Rockbourne Roman Villa

See more of Ancient Hampshire & Wiltshire in our Hillforts Episodes >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

#MosaicMonday 🏺
One of the many superb floors of #Roman Taranto - a triclinium floor from late 2C high status home.
Scenes of Dionysian satyr abducting nymph in a cave, w panther + tiger at sides, plus lion attacking horse, but also gorgeous little birds and fruits.
MArTA - Nat Arch Museum Taranto

Large elaborate mosaic. Within two black lines on white background, a guilloche border surrounds the large floor, and each of the panels within.
Large panel in centre has Dionysian satyr abducting nymph in a cave, and another large one nearest viewer shows lion attacking horse. Rectangular panels either side of centre have tiger and panther facing sides, and 4 square panels either side of lion/horse panel have birds and fruit. At top are 12 further panels, all facing viewer: 4 with birds/fruit and 4 at the top with intertwining geometric designs.

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