#Chilforts, our Beacons of the Past #hillfort #archaeology project, is reaching its end.
Read @Hillfortian's blog reflecting on project achievements, a new #AugmentedReality app under development, new interpretation boards, future plans & legacies!
👉http://bit.ly/3Wvo7Ic
#HillfortsWednesday One of our #Chilforts will be getting the red carpet treatment on 30 September.
Although Castle Grove Camp is on private land, and not open to visitation, it's still an important feature in the wider South Chilterns archaeological landscape. 1/2
Have you read our July #newsletter?
In this issue:
🌳Farming in Protected Landscapes case studies
🌿@berkhamstedschools restore the Bulbourne
🌸Events for Aug & Sept
🍂A #volunteer archeologist's story with #chilforts
🌞See @GreenSpaceDS photos
Read: https://bit.ly/3BDVMHN
#HillfortsWednesday out with the #Chilforts case officer from @HeritageFundUK, showing her some of the works we've carried out. Can you guess the hillfort?
A day early for #hillfortswednesday but how about #TeamworkTuesday?
Our @ChilternsAONB @HeritageFundUK project partner @ChilternSociety is out in force today at Cholesbury Camp, one of the #Chilforts we've done some emergency tree felling on. Making chips into paths. Ace work!
#HillfortsWednesday and it was chance to show off one of the amazing #Chilforts @AshridgeNT - Ivinghoe Beacon and it's setting. Thanks for the lift and great talk about your work, @chilternrangers
Was great to meet so many @HistoricEngland @NaturalEngland @HeritageFundUK folk!
Runner up for coolness are the giant quartz blocks that would.have faced the rampart, much like the chalk would have faced the ramparts on some of our @ChilternsAONB #chilforts
@phoebetaplin 2k+ yrs older than the mausoleum, a prehistoric hillfort stands there too. I'll show you round it or the 15 other #Chilforts we have in the @ChilternsAONB next time you're walking about!
#Volunteering opportunities for your New Year no. 3: Discover the unmapped #archaeology of the #Chilterns.
Help with fieldwork, or spot hillfort features on #lidar map from the comfort of your armchair!
Contact @Hillfortian or sign up here:
https://bit.ly/30uGqoO
#chilforts
Summary of the penultimate day @CoLBBSC #Chilforts excavation is up!
https://youtu.be/xHbQXSShuU8
Despite a power cut, I have finally got the editing done!
Day 5 @CoLBBSC #Chilforts update!
@ChilternsAONB @HeritageFundUK
https://youtu.be/upsheK19Gpk
an exciting day in the #Chilforts @CoLBBSC @ChilternsAONB @HeritageFundUK trench today. Video to post soon, but it was rainy and cold out there today so I'm afraid it's a hot bath and a bottle of @Maltthebrewery Voyager before I tackle editing.
Join @Hillfortian's #archaeologicalexcavation at Burnham Beeches!
In person: 27 Oct-02 Nov, 0830-1630 (walk up the Lord Mayor’s Drive to Seven Ways Plain hillfort - follow signage).
By video: updates to camera at 11.00 & 16.00. https://bit.ly/2U5a2Tc
#hillforts #chilforts
Looking forward to talking to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire division @royal_forestry tonight. Always fun to talk about #Chilforts and what we have been up to!
#HillfortsWednesday announcement - In collaboration with @CoLBBSC , the #Chilforts project is about to embark well out of our comfort zone and into the land of LiveStreaming...
7day solo excavation at Seven Ways Plain to record the profile of the earthworks 1/2
Good to see #ponds getting some love on @BBCBreakfast this morning, as well as #invertebrates and #palaeoecology survey !
#Chilforts LiDAR has identified hundreds of historic ponds in the @ChilternsAONB that could be restored, increasing biodiversity and a good carbon store too!
#HillfortsWednesday Out and about today with @HeritageFundUK #Chilforts project partners @CoLBBSC and with @NaturalEngland & @HistoricEngland discussing the future of Seven Ways Plain. Something exciting may be happening in about 6 weeks...stay tuned!
Found this To Do list I wrote in the summer of 2017. I since landed the best job I've ever had @ChilternsAONB #Chilforts so I can cross that one off...
But I'm still working on the other two!
Lovely to speak to the Tring History Society tonight about our #Chilforts, and on a #HillfortsWednesday too! I was told the good news that the @NHM_Tring is open! Can't wait for my first visit.
(C) Chilterns Conservation Board, art by @wessexarch @PhilKenning Mark Gridley)
ICYMI - a really lovely guest blog entry from Thames Valley Orienteering Club @tvoclub who made good use of our #Chilforts @ChilternsAONB @HeritageFundUK LiDAR
chilternsbeacons.org/wp/2021/06/10/getting-yo...
Yesterday morning m'colleague @gilescarey and I were guests on @BucksBreakfast and had a chat about one of my favourite subjects! - our @ChilternsAONB @HeritageFundUK #Chilforts project. Have a listen ICYMI
http://bit.ly/Chillforts
#VolunteersWeek2021 Here at Team #Chilforts we couldn't do much without our amazing #Volunteers. From the thousands looking for new archaeology on our LiDAR portal to the hardworking hands-on volunteers we've worked with in the field over the last 3 years - THANK YOU!
It's #HillfortsWednesday and your favourite @ChilternsAONB -based hillforts project is proud to welcome a new member to Team #Chilforts.
Say hello to Giles Carey @gilescarey who is our incoming Landscape Heritage Officer for the next year of the project!
3 years ago exactly I walked into the offices @ChilternsAONB and began the #Chilforts adventure with @edpev7
My archaeological focus has been enriched in so many other areas by working with passionate specialists who have shared their expertise with me over those years (1/2)
Great "Long Read" from the Guardian highlights the literal foundation of the @ChilternsAONB, our chalk, from which nature carved our #chalkstreams and people carved our #chilforts and which support animal and floral habitats as well as human...
ICYMI, here's the link to last weeks @BBCCountryfile episode all about the #Chilterns: http://bbc.in/36joayt
Watch our own @Hillfortian talking about Beacons of the Past, #Lidar & a veritable army of citizen scientists.
#Chilforts #BeaconsofthePast #Archaeology @edpev7
Not to toot my own horn🎺, because #Chilforts stands on the shoulders of a lot of amazing people, not least our funders, partners, volunteers and the hard working @edpev7
But if you want to see me pretend to be a telly celeb 🤣 tune in to Countryfile this Sunday 24th 7pm BBC One
#HillfortsWednesday Not always pretty, this hillforts game. Desborough Castle, hillfort-cum-medieval stronghold, now open air bin. @ChilternsAONB #Chilforts we are working with @chilternrangers, @BucksCouncil and @HistoricEngland to stop this.
A merry missive from ancient Medmenham with thanks on this #HillfortsWednesday to everyone who has been so supportive of our #Chilforts project. @edpev7 has written a cracking Year in Review chilternsbeacons.org/wp/2020/12/17/2020-in-re... What exciting discoveries await...
