A thread to celebrate #HillfortsWednesday
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Digital terrain model planlauf/TERRAIN from @HenryRothwell digitaldigging.net/hod-hill-dorse…
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Excavations in 1951-8 revealed much of the internal structure
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Now it seems the hillfort was abandoned a good century before the Romans
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Ballistae © Mariusz Kozik
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Here it is 🤩
© Dave Stewart and Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday #LoveGeofiz
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Some are set within enclosures. All cluster alongside a road system that branches out from the NE gate 😍
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Sometimes we spend hours looking at this plot 😊
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An Iron Age roundhouse with gulley, internal post ring, storage pits, hearth and SE facing entrance
A section of road bordered by rows of 4 post structures - (possibly granaries)
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The view to the North of the Iron Age ramparts to the Iwerne Valley and the view NW to the River Stour
Proper lovely 😍😍
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the northern bivallate ramparts of the hillfort looking East;
the Eastern circuit of the Roman fort where it intersects with the Iron Age earthworks;
the Southern inner scarp with quarry pits
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the Steepleton Gate (Iron Age) in the NE;
the Water Gate (Roman) in the NW;
the Home Gate (medieval) in the SE
Happy #HillfortsWednesday everyone !
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