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Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in Dorset and SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 9h
That famous, unscripted scene from the film version of *Do ponies on hillforts dream of electric chariots*
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11h
Bonus vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 #HillfortsWednesday
Aerial photograph showing the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with trees, scrub and the stone foundations of a broch or Iron Age tower
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Aedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 14h
Just wonderful
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Enjoyed a recent visit to 'Barbury Castle', an Iron Age hillfort near Swindon. Very impressive banks and ditches! Hillforts were some of the first archaeological sites I became interested in, and I still find them fascinating.
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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 9h
Dartmoor pony on the ramparts of Wooston Castle hillfort, staring up the Teign valley at Prestonbury hillfort. Double chariot dreams
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 10h
Always nice to come back from a weekend & be spoiled for choice for #HillfortsWednesday Had a fantastic time seeing more in Pembrokeshire & Gower 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 📷 Caer Aber Pwll Building to the new Hillfort Series this autumn For now you can catch more Welsh Hillforts here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...
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Rupert Ferguson @druidtombraider.bsky.social · 7h
Looking up at the Iron Age Hillfort on Earl's Hill, Pontesbury, near Oaks, Shropshire; courtesy of Bill Harrison. #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge #Archaeology
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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 10h
A glimpse into a distant time when this isle was a land of giants. Castell Henllys Iron Age Village, Pembrokeshire, Wales, is beautifully situated in fine wooded countryside; from a distance, it gives the impression that ancient folk still live here and that we’re somehow intruding on their privacy.
Reconstruction of an Iron Age camp of large thatched round houses situated amid trees on a hillside. A field is seen in the foreground while the sky is grey above. One of the thatched round houses is bigger than the others.
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 10h
Do oppida qualify for #HillfortsWednesday...?
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 10h
#HillfortsWednesday Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940). #Archaeology
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 10h
#HillfortsWednesday
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10h
Do ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams? The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian. #HillfortsWednesday
Wild ponies grazing on a grassy hilltop.
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 11h
#HillfortsWednesday & an incredible evening spent at Treyarnon Bay, photographing the promontory fort(s) of the Winecove point complex & staying at the YHA place there You can see more of the story in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 11h
HJM on Old Sarum for #HillfortsWednesday: "they chose a low, featureless hill perking up from the valley of the Avon, and breathed upon it, and lo, the turf sank and swelled and vast green billows of earth curled round their crests into oval cirques that even the brutal heel of war could not deface…
Photo of the ramparts of Old Sarum from Massingham's 'Downland Man' (1926)
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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 12h
I guilt tripped my daughter across 3,500 miles to 📸 this so I’d better post it! Afrasiyab, the ancient original site of Samarkand, occupied from 600 BCE until the Mongol invasion #HillfortsWednesday
A ridge of desert rock with crumbling evidence of stone construction of walls and buildings
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jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social · 12h
Views across the Levels and the Severn to Wales from Dolebury Hillfort, a large Iron Age multivallate enclosure on the edge of the Mendip Hills. Impressive limestone ramparts and many Clouded Yellow butterflies last week #HillfortsWednesday
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Aedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 15h
#HillfortsWednesday Ness of Birgi, Shetland. www.shetland.org/blog/ness-of...
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Ness of Burgi: An Iron Age Mystery | Shetland.org
Shetland is rich in archaeological remains spanning more than four thousand years and this walk on Scatness takes in one of the lesser-known - and more mysterious - sites, the Ness of Burgi.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 12h
The ramparts of Hod Hill Hillfort, near Blandford Forum in Dorset. The fort is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in the county. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #HodHill #IronAge #Archaeology #Dorset
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 11h
For #HillfortsWednesday the enormous, but heavily eroded, coastal promontory fort at Porth y rhaw, Pembrokeshire, in the care of @nattrustarch.bsky.social 🤩 The 5 metre+ high ramparts are among the most massive anywhere in west Wales. Excavations have revealed a long occupation 📷 My own, Saturday
A view along a cliff lined coast with the sea on the right & blue sky beyond
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 11h
If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday
Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology
A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy
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Ade @scrufftyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, near Wellow, Somerset on Sunday. Neolithic chambered tomb with superb ammonite fossil at the entranceway (see pic 2). 👏 #TombTuesday #Somerset #StoneyLittleton #Fossil #Ammonite @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @sanhs.org
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David @tombtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Annaghmore Dolmen A pretty little portal tomb right by the side of a quiet rural road. County Leitrim October 2024 #TombTuesday
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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Roman tombstone for #TombTuesday. It was found on Ludgate Hill in London in 1669, and marked the final resting place of centurion Vivius Marcianus. His wife Januaria Martina set it up for him some time in the third century.
A large carved stone with a figure of a man inside an arched top niche.
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Laurence Mitchell @eastofelveden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel privileged to have entered the chamber of the mighty Gavrinis tomb last week. A 6,000-year-old Neolithic passage tomb on a tiny island in the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, it's interior walls are covered in swirling megalithic art. It Similar in some ways to Newgrange in Ireland ##TombTuesday
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology
A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy
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Tin Girl @tinnedgirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The early Brits liked a BIG breakfast!
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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MosaicMonday – Mosaic depicting the capture of wild animals for Roman spectacles, including bears and wild boar. Originally measuring 15 × 9 m, it was discovered in 1904 in the Horti Liciniani in Rome and dates to the early 4th century AD. 📍 Centrale Montemartini, Rome.
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MosaicMonday & the East Coker Mosaic at the Museum of Somerset, Taunton c4, the hunting scene may be a nod to the villa owners love of hunting We caught this on a broader journey to North Devon & Cornwall which you can catch here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday
Mosaic set into the floor of a terrace with stone benches looking out at a rural landscape with trees
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The entranceway to a #Roman house in #Pompeii, with a striking black & white mosaic leading into the rest of the house - still in the place it was first laid nearly 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #MosaicMonday
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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love this dramatic shot, this mosaic must have stunned London when it was found in 1869! #MosaicMonday This is the 'Bucklersbury Pavement' from the early 200s CE, probably part of a wealthy villa or baths in the centre of old Londinium 📸 The London Museum 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky
A black and white illustration of Victorians on a walkway crowding around a roman mosaic open on the floor, with large buildings rising in the background
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Following last week's post, and prompted by a comment made then, I'm sharing two more details from Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) to document this floor. On the left, a cup with a ? dove. On the right, a ? gazelle and a ? fruit tree. 📷1991 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺
Ancient mosaic showing a damaged cup with a rectangular base and two handles. A small bird, probably a dove, perches on the left handle. There are slabs of marble at the top of the photo.A panel of ancient mosaic which is disintegrating. On the left, the remains of an animal, perhaps a gazelle. Its front legs are visible at lower left of the photo. On the right, the trunk and top part of an attractive ? fruit tree. Loose tesserae are scattered around.
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lively #MosaicMonday from posh C4 #Roman villa at Horkstow Lincs once featured wheel w Orpheus in centre enchanting animals including this bear, elephant (yes really) + 6 others in panels around him. Now over Humber in Hull Museum of Archaeology 🏺 For painting of mosaics after 1797 discovery see 2/.
A partial survival of an interesting mosaic of Orpheus (who would have been in now missing centre of wheel like device) and 8 animals, 2 of which remain. In left remaining section is a part of a bear pouncing forward from hind legs. On right is an elephant, missing its trunk, with long legs. Below the wheel to the left a figure can be seen in the corner of the mosaic. 
Two wide bands that would have bounded the mosaic are seen - one guilloche and one floral vault variation - with rows of triangles pointing up and down on a white line between them. Colours throughout the mosaic are shades of red/brown plus black, white and grey.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of several mosaics from the Roman Town House at Dorchester in Dorset. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday
Mosaic set into the floor of a terrace with stone benches looking out at a rural landscape with trees
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#StandingStoneSunday A flying visit today to the stunning C9th-10th AD Nevern high cross, very likely standing on or close to its original spot on an early Christian site. One the great treasures of Pembrokeshire 🤩 📷 My own
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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jazzing up my Iron Age dialogues tote bag - got a few more coats to go but love it so far. Let's hope the internet didn't lie and ironing acrylic markers fixes the colour!! #ironage #archaeology
Cream tote bag from Iron Age dialogues conference. Cow head escutcheon logo in centre. Starting to add colour to the bag.Cream tote bag from Iron Age dialogues conference. Cow head escutcheon logo in centre. Colouring in green Cream tote bag from Iron Age dialogues conference. Cow head escutcheon logo in centre. Colouring cow in green and adding black background to circle around picture Cream tote bag from Iron Age dialogues conference. First layer of colour added
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The gift shop @coriniummuseum.bsky.social is officially the best 😊👇👇
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A mini-lith in the Porlock Stone Circle @exmoornp.bsky.social #Somerset Measuring 24m in diameter and containing at least 13 stones, this Early Bronze Age monument can be hard to find with uprights standing only 15 – 80cm tall 📷 Aug 2019 Small but perfectly formed 😍 #StandingStoneSunday
An upright stone from a prehistoric circle in sunlight surrounded by tufts of grass
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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
West Kennet Avenue at Avebury today in the wind and then rain. Timeless as ever 💚 #StandingStoneSunday
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hmm. Other parts of Maiden Castle have ne'er seen a sheep for months. It's a tsunami of Red Fescue.
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another entry for #SundaySheep!
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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 4m tall Grande Pierre in Maupertus-sur-Mer (Manche) is one of 2 menhirs that were pulled over and buried in the 1940s for expansion of the airport runway. They were uncovered and re-erected in 1997. This card from 1905. #StandingStoneSunday.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We archaeologists tell the stories of the stones not to erase their mystery, not to undo their role as anchoring post for folklore, but to transmit the Long Neolithic. We give context for ghosts, provide new reasons for lithic pilgrimage. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The shrub on Thundersbarrow Hill has been partially cleared, revealing the profile of the bank, the ditch and Thundersbarrow itself under the shrub. How old is the barrow and how does it relate to the enclosure and the 'pond' to the south? #Prehistory #SouthDowns #Adur
Grassy banks and trees under a grey sky
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts
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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As I #AmWriting and researching sacrifice. death ritual, and #IronAge bog people, here's a listen on The Ancients podcast. Love the warning: "Contains detail that may be incompatible with Sunday lunch." 😅
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#StandingStoneSunday A waymarker at Merrivale #Dartmoor It had been freezing & wet that day - after the frost melted, I was left with true Autumn
Dark standing stone in pools of water under stormy clouds
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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stone row and kistvaen (stone cist) at Lakehead Hill, Bellever Forest, #Dartmoor yesterday for #StandingStoneSunday. (and a bit of early #TombTuesday)
Row of stones leading to a small stone burial chamber in rough grass with tall forestry commission evergreen trees beyond.
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