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Mar 31, 2021 • 9 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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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
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
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
The hillfort above Chichester #WestSussex is today known as the Trundle (from Tryndel *circle*) but was originally called ‘Rooks Hill’, after the chapel of St Roche built here in 1475 to deliver the city from the plague #HillfortsWednesday

See @TheNovium

thenovium.org/article/28855/…
A slightly (ahem) idealised image of the Trundle hillfort #WestSussex looking out to #Chichester and the #IsleofWight found by @MartynBarber2 in *Goodwood: It's House, Park and Grounds* by WH Mason from 1839

#HillfortsWednesday
The awe-inspiring RCHME surface survey showing the #Trundle hillfort, causewayed enclosure, St Roche’s chapel and so much more by Al Oswald @MartynBarber2 and Carolyn Dyer can be read for FREE thanks to @ADS_Update @HistoricEngland 😁

archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/…

#HillfortsWednesday
For those seeking to feast on some exquisite archaeology during lockdown, the good people of @sdnpa have put their #SecretsHighWoods LiDAR project online for FREE here:

southdowns.gov.uk/wp-content/upl…

As a taster, here’s the Trundle #WestSussex in all its glory 😍 #HillfortsWednesday
Excavations in the E entrance of the Trundle hillfort #WestSussex in 1930 and an Iron Age storage pit freshly opened (health and safety was more relaxed back then 😳) from the wonderful @sussex_society @SAS_Library archive

#HillfortsWednesday
The polygonal univallate 5.6ha Iron Age hillfort of the Trundle on St Roche’s Hill #WestSussex looking ESE through the W entrance at sunrise in a beautiful aerial pic by @DavidRAbram 🤩

For more of David’s amazing photos see:

davidabram.co.uk/ancient-britain

Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

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The enigmatic Dwarfie Stane on the island of #Hoy, part of the #Orkney archipelago

Looked after by @welovehistory @HistEnvScot it's quite possibly Britain's only #Neolithic rock cut tomb

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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

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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

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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

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For #HillfortsWednesday here’s the glorious Chlorus Camp (Figsbury Ring) #Wiltshire, photographically captured by David R Abram 🤩

For more of his stunning work see davidabram.co.uk

And catch his exhibition @SalisburyMuseum salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…

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Figsbury Ring / Chlorus Camp #Wiltshire comprises a univallate Iron Age hillfort with entrances at the East and West

At 6.2ha it encloses a Neolithic / EBA feature (a henge?)

LiDAR Digital terrain model Rouven Meidlinger @planlaufterrain CC BY-SA 4.0

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William Stukeley visited Chlorus Camp hillfort (Figsbury Ring) #Wiltshire in 1723

His drawing of the hillfort and inner henge looking SW shows the hillfort and castle of @EHOldSarum (B) and cathedral of Salisbury (C) in the distance

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It’s #HillfortsWednesday (huzzah!)

Today we’re looking down on the mighty Maiden Castle #Dorset @EnglishHeritage

It's impressive today, but how did it look in prehistory?

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Arguably the most famous hillfort in Britain, the multivallate Maiden Castle #Dorset encloses over 17ha and comprises many phases of construction and modification the appearance of which can be difficult to convey

📷 looking south © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

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The earliest built phase at Maiden Castle #Dorset was an Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure (c. 3550 BC)

Recreations of this period are comparatively rare, so this wonderful image © Miranda Schofield / English Heritage is particularly welcome 😊👍

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Figsbury Ring comprises a fine set of prehistoric enclosure systems on the chalk above Salisbury in #Wiltshire looked after by @nationaltrust @NatTrustArch

A short thread for #HillfortsWednesday
Figsbury Ring, once known as Chlorus Camp, #Wiltshire @NatTrustArch - The outer circuit encloses 6.2ha with entrances on the E and W

📷 Dae Sasitorn + Adrian Warren © Sasitorn Images

For more amazing images see: sasitornimages.com

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For many years, Figsbury Ring, depicted here in the Ordnance Survey for 1927 with the Roman road from Old Sarum to Winchester to the south, was thought to be a bivallate Iron Age hillfort...

...but there was something strange about the innermost circuit

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Here’s the glorious multivallate Iron Age hillfort (and Roman fort) atop #HodHill #Dorset @nationaltrust 😍looking east in this aerial photo from 2016 © Jo and Sue Crane

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Double ramparts define the 22ha hillfort of Hod Hill #Dorset except on the W with a single bank. Quarry pits form a line behind the ramparts. A Roman fort occupies the NW

Digital terrain model planlauf/TERRAIN from @HenryRothwell digitaldigging.net/hod-hill-dorse…
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The 2.6ha Roman fort at Hod Hill dates to c AD 44-52. It reused the N and W ramparts of the hillfort and was defended on its S and E sides by a rampart and 3 ditches

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