Something a bit different for #HillfortsWednesday - here's an OS map of Cadbury Castle in Somerset from the 1800s!
Notice how it adds "Or Camelot" to the label 👀
"Arthurian scholars" have long identified this fort, next to the River Cam, as the legendary "Cam-elot"
#archaeology #photooftheday🏺
Notice how it adds "Or Camelot" to the label 👀
"Arthurian scholars" have long identified this fort, next to the River Cam, as the legendary "Cam-elot"
#archaeology #photooftheday🏺
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Something a bit different for #HillfortsWednesday - here's an OS map of Cadbury Castle in Somerset from the 1800s!
Notice how it adds "Or Camelot" to the label 👀
"Arthurian scholars" have long identified this fort, next to the River Cam, as the legendary "Cam-elot"
#archaeology #photooftheday🏺
Notice how it adds "Or Camelot" to the label 👀
"Arthurian scholars" have long identified this fort, next to the River Cam, as the legendary "Cam-elot"
#archaeology #photooftheday🏺
Publication for #HillfortsWednesday 🤩🤩 👇👇
This volume represents the excavation of at least four loci within the broader monumental landscape of Tlachtga, charting its progression from Bronze Age hillfort to pre-Anglo Norman power display mound.
Available now: tinyurl.com/2trr7dz2
Available now: tinyurl.com/2trr7dz2
January 21, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Publication for #HillfortsWednesday 🤩🤩 👇👇
Dunsinane Hill with the iron age earthworks of its hillfort, which far antedate Macbeth, visible in the middle distance. Picture: Peter Ward. #HillfortsWednesday
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Dunsinane Hill with the iron age earthworks of its hillfort, which far antedate Macbeth, visible in the middle distance. Picture: Peter Ward. #HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
Great Hetha Hillfort. Sitting at 343m high, it has magnificent views over the surrounding hills . There is also evidence of at least nine circular hut platforms and some animal pens.
Great Hetha Hillfort. Sitting at 343m high, it has magnificent views over the surrounding hills . There is also evidence of at least nine circular hut platforms and some animal pens.
January 21, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#HillfortsWednesday
Great Hetha Hillfort. Sitting at 343m high, it has magnificent views over the surrounding hills . There is also evidence of at least nine circular hut platforms and some animal pens.
Great Hetha Hillfort. Sitting at 343m high, it has magnificent views over the surrounding hills . There is also evidence of at least nine circular hut platforms and some animal pens.
For #HillfortsWednesday it’s an old set of photos taken at Castell Henllys Iron Age Village in Pembrokeshire back in a sunny day in 2023 when the Two Barbarians still consisted of Mike and Fred Dog Missing my Fred Dog rather badly atm but we will have to take Benny Dog to visit there one day soon
January 21, 2026 at 10:14 AM
For #HillfortsWednesday it’s an old set of photos taken at Castell Henllys Iron Age Village in Pembrokeshire back in a sunny day in 2023 when the Two Barbarians still consisted of Mike and Fred Dog Missing my Fred Dog rather badly atm but we will have to take Benny Dog to visit there one day soon
The (very!) approximate late bronze age outer boundary of the hillfort at Mellor, #Derbyshire. It was found and excavated following parchmarks appearing in in the hot summer of 1995. #HillfortsWednesday
January 21, 2026 at 9:16 AM
The (very!) approximate late bronze age outer boundary of the hillfort at Mellor, #Derbyshire. It was found and excavated following parchmarks appearing in in the hot summer of 1995. #HillfortsWednesday
An old shot for #HillfortsWednesday - the carved ring marks of Dunadd Hillfort near Lochgilphead, Argyll
January 21, 2026 at 9:06 AM
An old shot for #HillfortsWednesday - the carved ring marks of Dunadd Hillfort near Lochgilphead, Argyll
Today, Penbury Knoll is a little-known, tree-covered gem of a hillfort at the NE margins of #Dorset
Here it sits, gazing down upon the mighty prehistoric and post Roman boundary ramparts of Bokerly Dyke / Bokerley Ditch
📷 April 2021
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here it sits, gazing down upon the mighty prehistoric and post Roman boundary ramparts of Bokerly Dyke / Bokerley Ditch
📷 April 2021
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Today, Penbury Knoll is a little-known, tree-covered gem of a hillfort at the NE margins of #Dorset
Here it sits, gazing down upon the mighty prehistoric and post Roman boundary ramparts of Bokerly Dyke / Bokerley Ditch
📷 April 2021
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
Here it sits, gazing down upon the mighty prehistoric and post Roman boundary ramparts of Bokerly Dyke / Bokerley Ditch
📷 April 2021
Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
In 1911, George Heywood Sumner wrote of Penbury Knoll hillfort that “the thorns are wizened by searching winds. The pale yellow bent grass, the moss and the heather, all staved and stunted – life is a grim struggle on Pentridge”
We quite like it up there 🤣
📷 April 2021
#HillfortsWednesday #Dorset
We quite like it up there 🤣
📷 April 2021
#HillfortsWednesday #Dorset
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM
In 1911, George Heywood Sumner wrote of Penbury Knoll hillfort that “the thorns are wizened by searching winds. The pale yellow bent grass, the moss and the heather, all staved and stunted – life is a grim struggle on Pentridge”
We quite like it up there 🤣
📷 April 2021
#HillfortsWednesday #Dorset
We quite like it up there 🤣
📷 April 2021
#HillfortsWednesday #Dorset
For #HillfortsWednesday we have a veritable compedium of winter hillforts for your delight, all located in the #Scottish Borders - home to the highest concentration of hillforts in Europe.
1. Corsehope Rings near Heriot
2. Woden Law near Jeburgh
3. Hownam Law near Hownam
4. Chatto Craig
1. Corsehope Rings near Heriot
2. Woden Law near Jeburgh
3. Hownam Law near Hownam
4. Chatto Craig
January 21, 2026 at 8:31 AM
For #HillfortsWednesday we have a veritable compedium of winter hillforts for your delight, all located in the #Scottish Borders - home to the highest concentration of hillforts in Europe.
1. Corsehope Rings near Heriot
2. Woden Law near Jeburgh
3. Hownam Law near Hownam
4. Chatto Craig
1. Corsehope Rings near Heriot
2. Woden Law near Jeburgh
3. Hownam Law near Hownam
4. Chatto Craig
its #HillfortsWednesday & what better time to catch our conversation with the entirely brilliant @drtobydriver.bsky.social on all things Hillforts & Iron Age Wales 🏴 >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
& thanks for everyones kind words so far!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
& thanks for everyones kind words so far!
What about all the Hillforts in Wales? With Dr Toby Driver
YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective
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January 21, 2026 at 8:15 AM
its #HillfortsWednesday & what better time to catch our conversation with the entirely brilliant @drtobydriver.bsky.social on all things Hillforts & Iron Age Wales 🏴 >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
& thanks for everyones kind words so far!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
& thanks for everyones kind words so far!
The hillfort of Penbury Knoll #Dorset was surveyed by the incomparable George Heywood Sumner in 1911
Sumner traced the rampart circuit and noted how much of the interior had been disturbed by post Med gravel extraction
#HillfortsWednesday
Sumner traced the rampart circuit and noted how much of the interior had been disturbed by post Med gravel extraction
#HillfortsWednesday
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
The hillfort of Penbury Knoll #Dorset was surveyed by the incomparable George Heywood Sumner in 1911
Sumner traced the rampart circuit and noted how much of the interior had been disturbed by post Med gravel extraction
#HillfortsWednesday
Sumner traced the rampart circuit and noted how much of the interior had been disturbed by post Med gravel extraction
#HillfortsWednesday
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Burton Point is an #IronAge promontory fort on the southern end of the peninsula. They are regarded as high status settlements. It is similar to hill forts found on rocky coasts of Cornwall, Wales and the Isle of Man, and rare nationally. #hillfortswednesday #Archaeology #Wirral
January 21, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Burton Point is an #IronAge promontory fort on the southern end of the peninsula. They are regarded as high status settlements. It is similar to hill forts found on rocky coasts of Cornwall, Wales and the Isle of Man, and rare nationally. #hillfortswednesday #Archaeology #Wirral
Penbury Knoll is one of Dorset’s less well known hillforts. Situated where Cranborne Chase meets the New Forest
Its tree-covered ramparts are easy to miss on the Ordnance Survey although the circuit is clear on LiDAR, here resolved by the Environment Agency
#HillfortsWednesday
Its tree-covered ramparts are easy to miss on the Ordnance Survey although the circuit is clear on LiDAR, here resolved by the Environment Agency
#HillfortsWednesday
January 21, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Penbury Knoll is one of Dorset’s less well known hillforts. Situated where Cranborne Chase meets the New Forest
Its tree-covered ramparts are easy to miss on the Ordnance Survey although the circuit is clear on LiDAR, here resolved by the Environment Agency
#HillfortsWednesday
Its tree-covered ramparts are easy to miss on the Ordnance Survey although the circuit is clear on LiDAR, here resolved by the Environment Agency
#HillfortsWednesday
As one final plug for 'Tarv', here for #HillfortsWednesday is Kensett's/Griffiths'/Tarv's description of a winter night's encounter with (?were)wolves, facilitated by "the camp brats" playing in the snow, at (presumably) a linear earthwork near the downland hillfort that might be Ditchling Beacon...
January 21, 2026 at 7:43 AM
As one final plug for 'Tarv', here for #HillfortsWednesday is Kensett's/Griffiths'/Tarv's description of a winter night's encounter with (?were)wolves, facilitated by "the camp brats" playing in the snow, at (presumably) a linear earthwork near the downland hillfort that might be Ditchling Beacon...
The glorious contour-hugging ramparts of Penbury Knoll hillfort Pentridge Down, Cranborne Chase, command wide ranging views across #Dorset #Hampshire and #Wiltshire
A place to heal
The earthworks have not been investigated, but are probably Late Bronze or Early Iron Age
#HillfortsWednesday
A place to heal
The earthworks have not been investigated, but are probably Late Bronze or Early Iron Age
#HillfortsWednesday
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
The glorious contour-hugging ramparts of Penbury Knoll hillfort Pentridge Down, Cranborne Chase, command wide ranging views across #Dorset #Hampshire and #Wiltshire
A place to heal
The earthworks have not been investigated, but are probably Late Bronze or Early Iron Age
#HillfortsWednesday
A place to heal
The earthworks have not been investigated, but are probably Late Bronze or Early Iron Age
#HillfortsWednesday
A rocky defended islet on Ynys Môn/Anglesey for #HillfortsWednesday ⛰️🌊
Dinas Porth Ruffydd lies on the southern cliffs of Ynys Gybi/Holy Island & is defended by a single rampart. A late C3rd Antoninianus & 2 Romano-British bronze ox-head bucket-handle mounts were discovered here..🤔 🐂
📷 My own
Dinas Porth Ruffydd lies on the southern cliffs of Ynys Gybi/Holy Island & is defended by a single rampart. A late C3rd Antoninianus & 2 Romano-British bronze ox-head bucket-handle mounts were discovered here..🤔 🐂
📷 My own
January 21, 2026 at 5:50 AM
A rocky defended islet on Ynys Môn/Anglesey for #HillfortsWednesday ⛰️🌊
Dinas Porth Ruffydd lies on the southern cliffs of Ynys Gybi/Holy Island & is defended by a single rampart. A late C3rd Antoninianus & 2 Romano-British bronze ox-head bucket-handle mounts were discovered here..🤔 🐂
📷 My own
Dinas Porth Ruffydd lies on the southern cliffs of Ynys Gybi/Holy Island & is defended by a single rampart. A late C3rd Antoninianus & 2 Romano-British bronze ox-head bucket-handle mounts were discovered here..🤔 🐂
📷 My own
The view across the Lake Saimaa in winter. The Pisamalahti hillfort is in Sulkava Finland, on a rock with 55-metre-high perpendicular rock surfaces above the lake. On the eastern side there is tens of metres of 3-m-wide and 2-m-high stone wall. #HillfortsWednesday
January 21, 2026 at 4:53 AM
The view across the Lake Saimaa in winter. The Pisamalahti hillfort is in Sulkava Finland, on a rock with 55-metre-high perpendicular rock surfaces above the lake. On the eastern side there is tens of metres of 3-m-wide and 2-m-high stone wall. #HillfortsWednesday
The tiny hillfort of Caer Bach, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen; in Conwy County, Wales; courtesy of Llywelyn2000. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The tiny hillfort of Caer Bach, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen; in Conwy County, Wales; courtesy of Llywelyn2000. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday
A dodgy shot of one of the banks up the top of Ingleborough for #hillfortsWednesday
Of course there's a (probable) Roman road nearby.
Of course there's a (probable) Roman road nearby.
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM
A dodgy shot of one of the banks up the top of Ingleborough for #hillfortsWednesday
Of course there's a (probable) Roman road nearby.
Of course there's a (probable) Roman road nearby.
In honour of #HillfortsWednesday I’m pleased to report that since my second years have asked for MORE HILLFORTS next year’s class will indeed be getting MORE HILLFORTS
a woman in a purple sweater is talking to a police officer in a police station .
Alt: A GIF of Gina Lanetti from the tv show Brooklyn 99 saying ‘let’s give the people what they want’.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
In honour of #HillfortsWednesday I’m pleased to report that since my second years have asked for MORE HILLFORTS next year’s class will indeed be getting MORE HILLFORTS
Looking north and south from British Camp on the Malvern Hills #HillFortsWednesday
January 14, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Looking north and south from British Camp on the Malvern Hills #HillFortsWednesday