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Mar 2 • 9 tweets • 11 min read
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…

A thread 👇👇👇
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

#HillfortsWednesday
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

#HillfortsWednesday #HengeWednesday
The outer ramparts of Figsbury Ring hillfort are concentric to the earlier (henge?) the bank of which is now missing

This amazing air photo © David R Abram davidabram.co.uk

See more @SalisburyMuseum salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…

#HillfortsWednesday #HengeWednesday
The wonderful Iron Age earthworks of Chlorus Camp / Figsbury Ring bank overlook Salisbury and the valley of the River Bourne in #Wiltshire 😍

They comprise an inner rampart, now 18m wide and 3.5m high, above a shallow ditch and slight counterscarp bank

#HillfortsWednesday
Today, the ramparts of Figsbury Ring hillfort #Wiltshire are regularly explored by multiple human, canine and bovine visitors

The walk and views from are 🤩 (but, if you're driving, be warned as the road to site is a tad 😱😱)

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The inner enclosure at Figsbury #Wiltshire is the earliest

Excavations by Maud and Ben Cunnington in 1924 found bone (human and animal), Grooved Ware and Beaker pottery meaning it may be a Late Neolithic henge

More work is needed 🤞

#HillfortsWednesday #HengeWednesday
A great tour of the prehistoric earthworks of Figsbury Ring / Chlorus Camp on this #HillfortsWednesday is provided by Adrian Green, Director @SalisburyMuseum over on @YouTube

Enjoy 😀👍

Exploring Figsbury Ring:
The hillfort / henge combo of Chlorus Camp / Figsbury Ring #Wiltshire is a Scheduled Ancient Monument looked after by the ever-wonderful @nationaltrust and you can read more here:

nationaltrust.org.uk/figsbury-ring

And here:

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li…

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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?

A thread on our favourite recreations / reconstructions from books, guides and on-site signage 👇👇 ImageImageImage
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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Mar 31, 2021
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

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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

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Oct 21, 2020
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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Aug 5, 2020
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

A thread to celebrate #HillfortsWednesday
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

Excavations in 1951-8 revealed much of the internal structure

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