#HillfortsWednesday

Atop the Iron Age ramparts of Rawlsbury Camp looking south across the Blackmore Vale #Dorset One of our favourite spots to just stop, sit and contemplate the world 😍 📷 August 2018 #HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday Castle an Dinas at St Columb Major. Dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850ft in diameter and standing 700ft above sea level.  #Archaeology #History

It's finally #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖 The mysterious Backbury hillfort in Herefordshire is thickly wooded & built around an ancient geological slump At its highest point is a deep chasm; if extant in prehistory this could have been seen as a significant locale or a portal to otherworlds🧙 📷 TD 2023

Dryslwyn Castle, Wales, which has been looming out of the mists moodily in the Towy Valley since some local chap built it in the 1220s, presumably because he lacked somewhere to loom from. #HillfortsWednesday #Cymru #Wales #Carmarthenshire #Castles

Wheelbarrows at dawn for #HillfortsWednesday during the first week back at Buckspool coastal promontory fort, Pembrokeshire. Excavations by @henebtwa.bsky.social & @richardosgood.bsky.social with Op Nightingale are focusing on two Romano-British houses on the fort summit 🛖 📷 This morning

#HillfortsWednesday Blwyddyn Newydd Dda/Happy New Year 🎉🎉. Bringing in 2025 with a Carnyx - or Iron Age war horn - at Castell Henllys hillfort, #Pembrokeshire trumpet 🎺 📷 My own

For #HillfortsWednesday a good aerial view of Mam Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District showing the layout of some of the defensive earthworks courtesy of William Hook. #Archaeolgy #IronAge #Hillfort

The document on scheduling (legal protection) of monuments & sites for Historic Environment Scotland is really valuable. It also contains this stunning image of Habchester Fort showing the impact of different landuse histories and how fragile our prehistory is. #HillfortsWednesday #AncientSky 🏺

It's easy to forget that hillforts had a life after the Iron Age Here's a fine recreation of significant later activity © Peter Dunn / Historic England It's Aug 1086 and William I has has brought the landowners of England to Old Sarum #Wiltshire to swear allegiance to him #HillfortsWednesday

Happy #HillfortsWednesday everyone !! Here's one of our favourite aerial images of the beautifully bivallate Barbury Castle #Wiltshire A stunning image © David R Abram from his 2022 exhibition @salisburymuseum.bsky.social *Ancient Sites from the Air* Proper Iron Age gorgeous 🤩

A fantastic view of Mam Tor in the Peak District, with its late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hill fort and two Bronze Age bowl barrows, courtesy of publicenergy. #HillfortsWednesday

Partially devoured by the sea Pummelled by heavy artillery The multiphase multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Flower's Barrow on the @jurassiccoasttrust.bsky.social #Dorset near Tyneham An epic aerial 📷 © David R Abram For more see davidabram.co.uk/ancient-… #HillfortsWednesday