Man standing beside steep exterior wall of Staigue hill fort

Man standing on the top of the wall of Staigue ring fort with a series of stone steps on the interior of Staigue Ring fort

Two people (woman and a man) in front of a stone ring fort near Sneem Co Kerry

View from the front of Staigue ring fort looking out over kenmare bay

#HillFortWednesday Staigue Hill fort, near Sneem, Co Kerry. about 500m above sea level with stunning views across Kenmare and one of the earliest examples of a stone ring fort (approx 300BCE). Photos mine

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Tap o Noth hill fort. Iron Age fort surrounded by <400 Pictish roundhouses (making it a potentially huge settlement by standards of the time).

Also in the foreground is the Craw Stane Pictish symbol stone at nearby Rhynie Pictish site.

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Sneaky show a castle 🏰 on #hillfortwednesday

A view of Hillfort banks and ditches in the sun

A trig point in a Green field

Banks and ditches of a hillfort with clouds

A ln etching of a hillfort plan in ‘Ancient Wiltshire’ by Richard colt Hoare. This is Battlesbury Camp

#hillfortwednesday - miraculously an hour of sun on Salisbury Plain today enabling a condition survey of Battlesbury Hillfort. Not looking bad and the views were grand. Colt Hoare’s plan in Ancient Wiltshire still works. #archaeology #wiltshire #ironage #celts

Photo of the Stillfried rampart Section Trench I/1969: View from the west towards the southern profile of the first wall section under the direction of Felgenhauer in 1969 (SP I 69) and the former settlement area in the background. In the foreground are the remains of the older wood-earth box V1267/V1167, which runs from north to south. It consists of round and square timbers, mostly oak. Towards the settlement (to the east), a few beams from the younger wood-earth box V1154/V1268 were also uncovered immediately adjacent. The former rampart is now covered by 1–2.5 m thick fill from later periods of use.

Foto of a feature of the Stillfried rampart: Close-up of the older wood-earth box V1267/V1167 in the western part of the Planum, view to the west. In the centre of the image are mostly un-debarked, superficially charred (oak) logs in the direction of the rampart. They come from the lowest box filling. The charred branches between the beams are clearly visible and most likely served as intentional fire preservation

On this #hillfortwednesday a book recommendation: The rampart of Stillfried (Austria). Hellerschmid and Griebl describe the features of the three Urnfield Culture phases and suggest the use of fire to strengthen the timber elements.
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The iconic Brentor on the western edge of Dartmoor. Iron Age ramparts exist but the hillfort my never have been fully completed. The medieval church was begun in the C12th.
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#HillfortWednesday @richardosgood.bsky.social @martynjb.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social Recent photos up Sidbury Hill hillfort on the Salisbury Plain Training Area. The last 2 show clearly the Bronze Age "double linear" earthwork meeting the NW corner of it.

Remains of a granite walled medieval longhouse, overgrown with heather

Remains of medieval settlement with Houndtor behind

Houndtor Medieval Settlement, Dartmoor. The remains of a small farming community and manor, abandoned in the C14th probably due to crop failures and the Black Death. Photos from last summer.
Again, not quite #HillfortWednesday (can’t get the hang of this guys)
#Dartmoor

Two parallel earthworks, photographed from on top of one, they recede into the shot, background of rolling hills

My #hillfortwednesday is Barbury Castle in Wiltshire. With stone circles and giant horses, there's so much history in these rolling hills.
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Photo of water lying in the ditch at the base of a tall earthen wall, with trees reflected on the water surface

Photo of the gap between inner and outer earth walls of an old hillfort, filled with fallen leaves, with trees all around and some ivy

Photo of an opening in a large earthen wall, viewed through trees

Photo of the gap between inner and outer earth walls of an old hillfort, filled with fallen leaves, with a tree trunk in the foreground

Today's obviously the last #HillfortWednesday of the year, so here's a couple of pics from yesterday's walk around the impressive Iron Age earthworks of Woodbury Castle

An Iron Age stone built wheel house, so called because of its internal structure with internal spaces designed around spoke shaped lintels

Neither a hill nor a fort for the final #HillfortWednesday of the year, more of an Iron Age house on a mountain. Still fascinating and beautifully constructed, though you might want to be shorter than 5’6” 🤕
Laid Wheelhouse, near Loch Eriboll, Sutherland

I marked #HillfortWednesday with the mighty Maiden Castle seen at dusk from a train heading west…

Sneaking one in for #hillfortwednesday A suitably seasonal view from Dryslwyn #Castle in the Tywi Valley, #Wales #Cymru with the great monument to Lord Nelson, Paxton's Tower, looming in the background

One of the best things on bluesky lately: all of the #boardgames posts! Along with #hillfortwednesday and enough #nfl posts to make it impossible to open bluesky if I have recorded a game for later… and fierce debates over #survey experiments and political science #methods! This place has it!

A rainbow at Foel Drygarn yesterday (25.11.25) for #HillfortWednesday #scape
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I follow football pretty closely, but I’ve also come to appreciate the shared technical interests with the stats communities (analysis, data visualization, etc.). So that’s a favorite, and kind of a double. In other areas of interest, I also really love #hillfortwednesday.

Creag Liath archaeology dig goes down a storm Budding archaeologists from Stronafian Community Forest and the local community, ably supported by Archaeology Scotland’s Adopt-a-Monument team, once again headed to the Clachan of Glendaruel in late ...

#TombTuesday and an early #HillfortWednesday

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1). The ‘hollow way’ leading to the flat top of #LewesdonHill, 2). the site of an #Ironage settlement. The hill’s naturally steep (Northern) side and the manmade ditch and ramparts of its less steep side provided refuge in times of threat, not to mention great views.

Photo of a Durotriges coin from Dorset

Although unearthed from Mount Batten, Plymouth, this coin originated in Dorset. I saw this in The Box and immediately thought of @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - some numismatics for #HillfortWednesday

GPR survey over the cathedral.

Students visiting the site

GPR survey.

Old Sarum and Salisbury.

For #hillfortwednesday some photos of our fieldwork this summer at #OldSarum @archsoton50.bsky.social an amazing site and landscape with a univallate hillfort adapted through time.

Archaeology project investigates historic Galloway fortress and circular cairn Carsphairn Heritage Initiative carried out the excavation at Stroanfreggan hill fortress.

A #TwoFer since I was unable to post for #TombTuesday
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Stroanfreggan Hillfort and circular Cairn, Dumfries and Galloway.

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#HillfortWednesday Caherconree, Co Ciarrai (Promontory Fort)

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A steep hillside with a wide and tall stone wall hugging its edge and curving away into the distance. There are scree and fallen rocks from the wall on the slopes below it to the left. There is an area of level ground to the right of the wall and another steep slope beyond that. In the distance on the left there is a hazy view of other hills in the distance.

Defensive walls at Tre'r Ceiri, an Iron Age hillfort on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales.

Photo taken ten years ago today.

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The hillfort from air

Eketorp on Öland is the only fully excavated and reconstructed hillfort in Sweden. It was used both during the Iron Age and Middle Ages. It has been estimated that it was built by and for 20 households. It had permanent settlement at the end of Iron Age. #HillfortWednesday

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Reconstruction of archaeologists' 1970 camp at Tustan Fortress, Skole National Park, in the Ukrainian Carpathians: tents, a campfire, clothes on a washing line in the background, a Volga car in the foreground.

A miniature model of the archaeologists' 1970 camp at Tustan Fortress, Skole National Park, in the Ukrainian Carpathians, next to the full-size reconstruction of the camp.

Splendid reconstruction at Tustan Fortress in the #Ukrainian #Carpathians – not of the fort, but of the camp made by the archaeologists who investigated it in 1970. Material culture and way of life authentically represented; Volga in surprisingly good nick #HillfortWednesday

The view to the sea from the top

Bygdeborg or Bruceborg hill fort lies in Väskinde parish on Gotland. It is 100 x 60 squaremetres in size and defended by steep cliffs in north and west and by a 92 metres long, 3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. Inside the fort are lime pits. #HillfortWednesday

#HillfortWednesday Distant view of Sidbury Hill which dominates Salisbury Plain East of the River Avon. An exposed place, capped with Reading Formation geology. It forms the focus for a number of Bronze Age linear ditches.

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Some views of the Roman Temple and massive fortifications at Maiden Castle in Dorset.
Special thanks to @drtobydriver.bsky.social
For the recommendations of other sites in the area