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It's #HillfortsWednesday and here’s the curiously enigmatic (and infrequently examined) prehistoric earthwork enclosures atop the wonderfully named Thundersbarrow Hill #WestSussex @sdnpa 😍
Pic © CACUP 1975 (BSR60) @CamDigLib @theUL
A short thread 👇👇👇
Pic © CACUP 1975 (BSR60) @CamDigLib @theUL
A short thread 👇👇👇
The subcircular Iron Age hillfort of Thundersbarrow covers 1.2ha with entrances at the SE and N
It encloses a 0.5ha subsquare Bronze Age enclosure with a barrow and Romano British village at the S + E
Plan: Robert Gurd 1932 © Sussex Arch Soc @sussex_society
#HillfortsWednesday
It encloses a 0.5ha subsquare Bronze Age enclosure with a barrow and Romano British village at the S + E
Plan: Robert Gurd 1932 © Sussex Arch Soc @sussex_society
#HillfortsWednesday
Thundersbarrow Early Iron Age hillfort sits brooding atop a low ridge at the southern slope of the chalk downs @sdnpa above the Sussex coastal plain and Shoreham-by-Sea
It's easy to spot once you know it's there
Pic Simon Carey 2005 CC BY-SA 2.0
#HillfortsWednesday
It's easy to spot once you know it's there
Pic Simon Carey 2005 CC BY-SA 2.0
#HillfortsWednesday
It’s #HillfortsWednesday and we wonder if the Iron Age univallate Trundle has ever looked more gorgeous than in this incredible pic by @DavidRAbram here, looking N towards the mist swathed #WestSussex Weald 🤩
For more of David’s stunning photos see:
davidabram.co.uk/ancient-britain
For more of David’s stunning photos see:
davidabram.co.uk/ancient-britain
The Iron Age ramparts of the Trundle #WestSussex partially enclose the spiral circuit of an earlier causewayed enclosure, the remains of which can be seen in this epic photo by @DavidRAbram
For more of David’s stunning photos see:
davidabram.co.uk/ancient-britain
#HillfortsWednesday
For more of David’s stunning photos see:
davidabram.co.uk/ancient-britain
#HillfortsWednesday
The distinctive imprint of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure is evident within the polygonal circuit of the Iron Age Trundle #WestSussex as slight earthworks and as dark lines to the SW in this early air photo from the 1930s in @SAS_Library @sussex_society
#HillfortsWednesday
#HillfortsWednesday
