The British Iron Age is the pits
There's somewhere between 140-170 pits recorded from inside the Caburn hillfort in East #Sussex (the largest being Roman)
Plans: the 1928 survey by E Cecil Curwen and the 1999 #RCHME survey published in Sussex Archaeological Collections 137
#HillfortsWednesday
There's somewhere between 140-170 pits recorded from inside the Caburn hillfort in East #Sussex (the largest being Roman)
Plans: the 1928 survey by E Cecil Curwen and the 1999 #RCHME survey published in Sussex Archaeological Collections 137
#HillfortsWednesday
October 14, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The British Iron Age is the pits
There's somewhere between 140-170 pits recorded from inside the Caburn hillfort in East #Sussex (the largest being Roman)
Plans: the 1928 survey by E Cecil Curwen and the 1999 #RCHME survey published in Sussex Archaeological Collections 137
#HillfortsWednesday
There's somewhere between 140-170 pits recorded from inside the Caburn hillfort in East #Sussex (the largest being Roman)
Plans: the 1928 survey by E Cecil Curwen and the 1999 #RCHME survey published in Sussex Archaeological Collections 137
#HillfortsWednesday
RCHME moved me from London to Ashford in Kent and then up to York in 1992.
October 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
RCHME moved me from London to Ashford in Kent and then up to York in 1992.
My colleagues at EH/HE were sometimes a little late organising these things. In RCHME the illustrators were part of the project team from the word go. Sometimes projects developed differently because of our inputs to the early stages.
September 18, 2026 at 10:26 AM
My colleagues at EH/HE were sometimes a little late organising these things. In RCHME the illustrators were part of the project team from the word go. Sometimes projects developed differently because of our inputs to the early stages.
Whitehawk Causewayed Enclosure. Brighton. RCHME survey overlayed in Google Earth http://t.co/2Y4uRFbAxk
January 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Whitehawk Causewayed Enclosure. Brighton. RCHME survey overlayed in Google Earth http://t.co/2Y4uRFbAxk
Chilcombe hillfort #Dorset appears univallate except on the North but ploughing may have removed a 2nd inner bank elsewhere
Breaches at the NW and East with internal passageways are original
Plan © RCHME / HMSO 1952 @bho.bsky.social
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HillfortsWednesday
Breaches at the NW and East with internal passageways are original
Plan © RCHME / HMSO 1952 @bho.bsky.social
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HillfortsWednesday
April 29, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Chilcombe hillfort #Dorset appears univallate except on the North but ploughing may have removed a 2nd inner bank elsewhere
Breaches at the NW and East with internal passageways are original
Plan © RCHME / HMSO 1952 @bho.bsky.social
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HillfortsWednesday
Breaches at the NW and East with internal passageways are original
Plan © RCHME / HMSO 1952 @bho.bsky.social
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HillfortsWednesday
With shades of The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog this RCHME plan of Coney's Castle hillfort has a Dorset mega-bunny on the N arrow 🐇
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
With shades of The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog this RCHME plan of Coney's Castle hillfort has a Dorset mega-bunny on the N arrow 🐇
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
From: 'Bourn', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire, Volume 1, West Cambridgshire
(London, 1968), British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...
(London, 1968), British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...
Bourn | British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk
May 31, 2026 at 4:39 PM
From: 'Bourn', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire, Volume 1, West Cambridgshire
(London, 1968), British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...
(London, 1968), British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...
The RCHME programme never ended - continued from 1999-2014 within English Heritage, ans since then Historic England. Even a few ex-RCHME staff still about:
historicengland.org.uk/research/met...
historicengland.org.uk/research/met...
Aerial Reconnaissance: Making New Archaeological Discoveries and Monitoring Sites from the Air | Historic England
Aerial reconnaissance is used by archaeologists to discover new sites and record changes in the historic landscape
historicengland.org.uk
June 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The RCHME programme never ended - continued from 1999-2014 within English Heritage, ans since then Historic England. Even a few ex-RCHME staff still about:
historicengland.org.uk/research/met...
historicengland.org.uk/research/met...
Seems like a good excuse to post some old favourites... Cissbury and Grimes Graves, from the RCHME Neolithic flint mines project.
December 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Seems like a good excuse to post some old favourites... Cissbury and Grimes Graves, from the RCHME Neolithic flint mines project.
Haha, two excellent facts! Both new to me. I inherited a lovely big b&w RCHME photo of Beacon Hill from that project, must try to re-find it 🧐
June 30, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Haha, two excellent facts! Both new to me. I inherited a lovely big b&w RCHME photo of Beacon Hill from that project, must try to re-find it 🧐
Somehow I’ve clocked up 16.5yrs in this role already 😳
Definitely still happily hachuring atm. Maybe I’ll be brave and share the latest once they are published. Though I will never match the full-time graphics pros of RCHME days. Still ever hopeful of learning the old ways with ink but, alas, time
Definitely still happily hachuring atm. Maybe I’ll be brave and share the latest once they are published. Though I will never match the full-time graphics pros of RCHME days. Still ever hopeful of learning the old ways with ink but, alas, time
June 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Somehow I’ve clocked up 16.5yrs in this role already 😳
Definitely still happily hachuring atm. Maybe I’ll be brave and share the latest once they are published. Though I will never match the full-time graphics pros of RCHME days. Still ever hopeful of learning the old ways with ink but, alas, time
Definitely still happily hachuring atm. Maybe I’ll be brave and share the latest once they are published. Though I will never match the full-time graphics pros of RCHME days. Still ever hopeful of learning the old ways with ink but, alas, time
Sure! It is always a good day when you find your project area has a VCH (&/or an RCHME county volume)!
The emerging Wolds aerial mapping and new earthwork surveys are beautiful 😍 and so much new detail. Can’t wait until we & aerial team can share them, probably next year.
The emerging Wolds aerial mapping and new earthwork surveys are beautiful 😍 and so much new detail. Can’t wait until we & aerial team can share them, probably next year.
June 9, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Sure! It is always a good day when you find your project area has a VCH (&/or an RCHME county volume)!
The emerging Wolds aerial mapping and new earthwork surveys are beautiful 😍 and so much new detail. Can’t wait until we & aerial team can share them, probably next year.
The emerging Wolds aerial mapping and new earthwork surveys are beautiful 😍 and so much new detail. Can’t wait until we & aerial team can share them, probably next year.
Oh, absolutely! #EarthworkSurvey & #HachureHeaven are in my very bones. In my (rare) spare moments at work I am gradually adding more of the legacy RCHME & EH hachured survey reports to HE’s public database.
Many kindred spirits of this ilk to be found in the LSG… @landscapesurvey.bsky.social
Many kindred spirits of this ilk to be found in the LSG… @landscapesurvey.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Oh, absolutely! #EarthworkSurvey & #HachureHeaven are in my very bones. In my (rare) spare moments at work I am gradually adding more of the legacy RCHME & EH hachured survey reports to HE’s public database.
Many kindred spirits of this ilk to be found in the LSG… @landscapesurvey.bsky.social
Many kindred spirits of this ilk to be found in the LSG… @landscapesurvey.bsky.social
And Chris Dunn (RCHME & EH) 😔
December 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM
And Chris Dunn (RCHME & EH) 😔
Hi Beccy, is it possible that RCHME or EH (as was) might have supported or undertaken it? The current scientific dating team at Historic England might know?
…Though I suspect that it would already be in the C14 database if that was the case 🤔
…Though I suspect that it would already be in the C14 database if that was the case 🤔
December 28, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Hi Beccy, is it possible that RCHME or EH (as was) might have supported or undertaken it? The current scientific dating team at Historic England might know?
…Though I suspect that it would already be in the C14 database if that was the case 🤔
…Though I suspect that it would already be in the C14 database if that was the case 🤔
I believe one of the people drawing site plans for #RCHME was an influence on the art of #Tolkien particularly his wonderful maps. Could this plan, complete with bunny and carefully delineated #trees, be by the artist in question?
With shades of The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog this RCHME plan of Coney's Castle hillfort has a Dorset mega-bunny on the N arrow 🐇
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
It used to be thought the name came from the Saxon / Germanic word for king (Cyning / König)
More likely it reflects later rabbit (Coney) breeding
#HillfortsWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
RCHM link: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/.... 2/n
Great Eversden | British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk
October 29, 2023 at 8:32 AM
RCHM link: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/.... 2/n
8. Could there be an alternative explanation? Here’s a map of the site: (9) = the house; (19) = the moat fed by a long ditch running from the nearby stream. The house, ditch & moat are all in the same alignment (map www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...)
October 28, 2023 at 2:26 PM
8. Could there be an alternative explanation? Here’s a map of the site: (9) = the house; (19) = the moat fed by a long ditch running from the nearby stream. The house, ditch & moat are all in the same alignment (map www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...)
6. ... whose vicar held his own among the middling local farmers, neither wealthier nor poorer than most. The RH end of the house has been lost, but it now measures about 9mx4.5m. (www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...) So let’s compare that with the area of the moated platform ..
October 28, 2023 at 2:24 PM
6. ... whose vicar held his own among the middling local farmers, neither wealthier nor poorer than most. The RH end of the house has been lost, but it now measures about 9mx4.5m. (www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...) So let’s compare that with the area of the moated platform ..
5. Here’s a modern map of Caxton showing the Roman rd (orange), the village, fields & lanes, and the surviving ridges of medieval cultivation (from www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...). The rd certainly seems to divide the settlement into two triangles.
October 12, 2023 at 3:57 PM
5. Here’s a modern map of Caxton showing the Roman rd (orange), the village, fields & lanes, and the surviving ridges of medieval cultivation (from www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/...). The rd certainly seems to divide the settlement into two triangles.
In 1765 Sturt acquired Crichel House and undertook major works on the building. To accommodate his plans, the village was moved 1 kilometre south...
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HistParl
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HistParl
Moor Crichel | British History Online
www.british-history.ac.uk
June 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
In 1765 Sturt acquired Crichel House and undertook major works on the building. To accommodate his plans, the village was moved 1 kilometre south...
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HistParl
www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset...
#HistParl
By coincidence I catalogued a photograph of a flint belonging to this chap just a couple of days ago... more information on the find at www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northa...
March 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
By coincidence I catalogued a photograph of a flint belonging to this chap just a couple of days ago... more information on the find at www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northa...