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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 15m

Its a historical track (now a tarmac road) which post dates the hillfort but appears to enter the circuit through what was probably the southern entrance

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

CONGRATULATIONS to Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social and Jon of @buarchanth.bsky.social whose video series #Stratmates has been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Archaeology Achievements Awards 2025 🥳

You can catch up with the #Stratmates backcatalogue over on #Instagram

#Archaeology #Dorset

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4h

Didn't we all 🤣

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4h

“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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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 5h

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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5h

And #HillfortsWednesday 😊

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 3d

#StandingStoneSunday: the 3-metre tall standing stone on Pencraig Brae, East Lothian, looking south to the rounded Traprain Law with its hillfort, and the Lammermuir Hills beyond. The old Great North Road crosses this view, on the far side of the wall in the middle of this picture.

Photograph of a solitary standing stone in a stubble field with a rounded hill in the distance.

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 1d

*Please book by the 12th October*
The final Walk and Talk of 2025 will be on October 19th at Buckholt Bryngaer Hillfort, Mon. - Jan Bailey (Walk) and Katie Churchill (Hilltop tour).
Come and learn about this fascinating multi-period site!
Info: bit.ly/46HA1pG
Booking: [email protected]

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 5h

The notice board at the site.

Blackbury Camp is a hillfort built during the 4th century BC. It was used by an Iron Age tribal people, probably for several hundred years.
The hillfort would have required communal effort and strong leadership to construct. Although defensible, it may not have been permanently inhabited but used as a place where produce and livestock - the wealth of the community, might have been kept and protected, routinely or in times of trouble.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 5h

#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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5h

a man wearing glasses looks at the camera in a black and white photo

ALT: a man wearing glasses looks at the camera in a black and white photo

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5h

The assumption is that these are two Irish names commemorated in dual terms for an audience familiar with both Latin and Old Irish

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5h

Only when it rains

(Which is often)

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 5h

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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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 6h

guess this is what happens when you spend this much time around you Bluesky / #HillfortsWednesday types 😁

new episode up, continuing through the Hillforts of Wiltshire but also a bit of an explainer on types of Hillfort, how they were constructed etc.
its here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5h

So do we 😄

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 6h

I like that #HillfortsWednesday is a thing.

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 6h

#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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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5h

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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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 6h

Read more detail here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305429

English – Coflein

coflein.gov.uk

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 6h

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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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 6h

#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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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 6h

#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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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 6h

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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Tony Hurley @tonyhurley.bsky.social · 7h

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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