Late #HillfortsWednesday
Y Gaer Fach (small fort) & Y Gaer Fawr, (big fort) Brecon Beacons together form the largest hillfort in S Wales. The ramparts of Y Gaer Fawr would have once stood 10m high, ensuring it would have been a notable presence in the landscape for miles around. 📷AH

Giant City Stone #Fort is a #prehistoric stone enclosure located within Giant City State Park in Jackson County, #Illinois. Late Woodland period c. AD 600–900 CE. One of ten such sites known in Southern Illinois, all on high ground. Creative Commons photo by Dazspell, more on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=59035 #HillfortsWednesday #nativeamerican

#HillfortsWednesday
stick with me on this one...

Rome
specifically the Palatine hill & some of the earliest layers of settlement there with archaeology from c10-8 BC & these recreations of the 'Germalus huts'
Taken last week in the Palatine museum

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #HillfortsWednesday in #Ireland at Brian Boru’s Earthen Fort in east Co. Clare: Site of an original ringfort. Possibly abandoned when Turlough O'Conor demolished it in 1116 or when the Nornans arrived.
Béal Ború, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte 

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #HillfortsWednesday at the remains of the inaugural Landscape of Cráeb Telcha, modern Crew Hill, Northern #Ireland: „The King would turn around three times reciting an oath with his foot upon the stone as part of the ceremony. This was common practice at other sites such as Dunadd Fort in Scottish Dalriada, the stone of the Magennis in Newry , and also at Portrush where the stone later became known as the Witch's Chair.” 
Source: http://www.dalaradia.co.uk/?page_id=44

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on #HillfortsWednesday in Northern #Ireland: The inaugural landscape of Cráeb Telcha, modern Crew Hill, has been variously translated as ‘the spreading tree of the hill’ (O’Donovan 1856, 750; O’Laverty 1880, 295), ‘the tree of the mound’ (Lucas 1963, 25), ‘the tree of the small hill/hillock’ (Warner 1991, 40), and ‘the branch of the hill’ (FitzPatrick 2004, 37–8). Lucas has shown that the place-name element cráeb, although literally meaning ‘branch’, is sometimes used as a synonym for bile (sacred tree) 
Source: Archaeological Evaluation of the Inaugural Landscape of Crew Hill (Cráeb Telcha), County Antrim.pdf 

#HillfortsWednesday & another Hillfort-without-the hill with Borough Fen just north of Peterborough

#HillfortsWednesday & more hillforts without the hill with Stonea Camp
heard this batted around as the lowest hillfort enclosure in the country?
additional medieval ditchworks visible

Despite road signs pointing there, beware of the approaching road it is murder!

Forest:Jungle Collective
#HillfortsWednesday & hows about some Hillforts without the hill?!

Belsars Hill, Cambridgeshire
Iron age origin - may have been refortified during the Norman period & used by the forces of Hereward the Wake
you can see the trackway running through the centre

#Ely #Cambridgeshire

For #HillfortsWednesday I just wanted to share short film showing the preservation of the wooden constructions of the rampart of the timber castle in #Spycimierz #Poland. More less 11th-12th century. Unfortunately it is too large to be uploaded. So I'm giving you some pictures and a link to tt with the film.
https://twitter.com/gunthera_mws/status/1679094094507720704?s=20

#HillfortsWednesday with Pentwyn Hillfort overlooking the welsh border with England
a large oval bivallate hillfort with natural scarps on the South & East sides

After finishing this year's work on the #INHILLDAUGAR project in #Latvia, I'm back in #Spycimierz. We are excavating a rampart of a medieval (11th or 12th century) ring-fort, which was transformed into a motte-and-bailey in the 14th century.
#HillfortsWednesday

#HillfortsWednesday and a revisit this weekend to Hambledon Hill
Nowhere quite like it when the sun is shining

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RT @JODarchaeology
One of the most dramatically sited hillforts you'll come across, Caherconree in southern Ireland overlooks both Dingle and Tralee Bay and is linked with the mythical Cú Roí, a pagan king of southern Ireland and a major antagonist of Cú Chulainn.

#HillfortsWednesday
https://twitter.com/JODarchaeology/status/1311232603232653312

heroic warriors of #Ulster were to be
burned.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Irland`
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RT @JODarchaeology
One of the most dramatically sited hillforts you'll come across, Caherconree in southern Ireland overlooks both Dingle and Tralee Bay and is linked with the mythical Cú Roí, a pagan king of southern Ireland and a major antagonist of Cú Chulainn.

#HillfortsWednesday
https://twitter.com/JODarchaeology/status/1311232603232653312

#Celtic #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #HillfortsWednesday: Behind the doors of the guesthouse in #Temair Luachra, the royal castle of the Érainn, a fiery surprise awaited the warriors of #Ulster. #CúChulainn chose the largest guest house. He did not know that this one
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RT @HeritageHubIRE
In 2000-03 the Heritage Council funded aerial photographic surveys of Irish coastal promontory forts by the late Markus Casey. Over t…
https://twitter.com/HeritageHubIRE/status/1253605214130667520

Got a great one this week for #HillfortsWednesday
the Ancient Cycladic settlement of Skarkos on the island of Ios 🇬🇷
habbitation going back to mid-c3 BC

From a few weeks ago: a fantastic pit stop to the Caterthuns near Edzell with our favourite hill-fort tour guide, Alex Woolf, and some of the St Andrews history PhD cohort!

#HillfortWednesday #HillfortsWednesday #Histodons #Scotland #Archaeology #Hillfort

RT @TrimontiumTrust
For #HillfortsWednesday we have dramatic Dunsinane Hillfort in #Perthshire #Scotland - #Shakespeare said ' #Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him." The Iron Age Hillfort has impressive ramparts #ScotlandIsNow

Back on the #WyeValleyWalk for Easter Saturday. An incredibly beautiful walk between Boughrood and Builth Wells/Llanfair-ym-Muallt.

Barely saw anyone in 6 hours. Managed to fit in some prehistoric detours en-route: a fine standing stone, two Bronze Age round barrows, a Bronze Age cairn, two hilllforts and a joy of a very obscure stone circle with magic views of the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons.

#BronzeAge #StandingStoneSunday #HillfortsWednesday #Wales