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Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940).
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Do ponies living wild on a hillfort have Iron Age chariot dreams?
The beautiful inhabitants of Traprain Law, East Lothian.
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#HillfortsWednesday & an incredible evening spent at Treyarnon Bay, photographing the promontory fort(s) of the Winecove point complex & staying at the YHA place there

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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

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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 🤩

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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

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…

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
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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

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
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Suppose it's the same everywhere. There's a #HillFortsWednesday tag here and the only one that seems to have visitors other than the photographer is Maiden Castle.
When we last visited it a typical Weymouth grockle family entered the car park, got out, mum said "well this is boring" and they left.

Early #HillfortsWednesday 😊

Henceforth, all #HillfortsWednesday posts should contain such evocative detail (maybe with a little more about lunch choices?).

A Burnswark Hill 360 for #HillfortsWednesday starting off southwards with the Solway in the far distance, and ending with some prat who was cluttering up the view.

Danebury Hillfort, near Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England; courtesy of Mike Faherty. #HillfortsWednesday #IronAge #Archaeology