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The Iron Age multivallate hillfort at White Sheet Hill, Wiltshire, this time from the north, with views over Blackmore Vale
#HillfortsWednesday
A steep stretch of downland with three ramparts and ditches visible at the top where there is an Iron Age hillfort. Long views of trees and farmland
October 28, 2026 at 7:42 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The 8 hectare multivallate hillfort of Eggardon @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset is a muscular piece of Iron Age engineering

The majority of hollows still visible inside the enclosure, however, appear to be post medieval quarry pits

A spectacular kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2012 🤩

#HillfortsWednesday
The green grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort from the air with pit hollows inside and fields in the distance
October 21, 2026 at 6:22 AM
jessstilllife.bsky.social
White Sheet Hill, an Iron Age multivallate hillfort. Contains a Bronze Age ring barrow and traces of hut circles, with burial mounds and a Neolithic enclosure close by. Sweeping views of the Blackmore Vale and the Wiltshire Downs, a truly atmospheric place
#HillfortsWednesday
View of curving downland with hillfort ramparts and a steep slope that abruptly meets green fields
October 21, 2026 at 5:37 AM
jessstilllife.bsky.social
Views across the Levels and the Severn to Wales from Dolebury Hillfort, a large Iron Age multivallate enclosure on the edge of the Mendip Hills. Impressive limestone ramparts and many Clouded Yellow butterflies last week
#HillfortsWednesday
September 30, 2026 at 5:55 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Bisected by road and half covered in trees, the multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Milber Down #Devon can be difficult to fully appreciate on the ground

Here it is seen from the air

📷 © Frances Griffith 1985 / Devon County Council

www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvi...

It's #HillfortsWednesday
The three ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort in a black and white aerial photograph showing one half, the left, covered in trees, one half, the right, covered in grass and a road running through the middle
September 23, 2026 at 6:02 AM
handhyorkshire.bsky.social
multivallate hillfort, a 12th-century motte and bailey castle and the site of a deserted medieval village. The Victoria Tower at its summit was opened by the Earl of Scarborough on 24 June 1899. The earliest period of use was approximately 4,000 years ago,
September 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
archaeohawke.bsky.social
Caerau Hillfort is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort, built on a previously occupied Neolithic site, occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in the western suburbs of Caerau, Cardiff.
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
September 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
constructionhist.bsky.social
In which the Construction Historian learns a new word.
'multivallate' apparently means more than one set of ramparts.
Vallate from Latin 'vallum' meaning wall or rampart. 'Wall' comes from 'vallum' too.
durotrigesdig.bsky.social Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Aug 19
The awe-inspiring, 16 hectare multivallate hillfort of Traprain Law (Dunpendyrlaw / Dumpender Law) #EastLothian
This mighty site dominated the political landscape of early #Scotland from the Late Iron Age well into the post Roman period

📷 August 2014

Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort in the distance with hedgerows and tarmac road with white painted central line in the foreground
August 19, 2026 at 2:59 PM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The awe-inspiring, 16 hectare multivallate hillfort of Traprain Law (Dunpendyrlaw / Dumpender Law) #EastLothian
This mighty site dominated the political landscape of early #Scotland from the Late Iron Age well into the post Roman period

📷 August 2014

Happy #HillfortsWednesday !
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort in the distance with hedgerows and tarmac road with white painted central line in the foreground
August 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM
jessstilllife.bsky.social
Bronze Age cairn to the North East of Lordenshaws hillfort near Rothbury. An amazing site with complex multivallate fort, Bronze Age cemetery and tons of rock art
📸 from this March
#TombTuesday
A footworn path through winter heather leads to a low mound studded with rocks. Moorland hills in the distance
August 11, 2026 at 5:52 AM
historyhaze1.bsky.social
New archaeology blog post
#archaeology #StoneaCamp #IronAge #Roman #Iceni
Stonea Camp: The Lowest Iron Age ‘Hillfort’ in Britain
Stonea Camp is described as the lowest Iron Age Multivallate ‘hillfort’ in Britain, and one sunny cold day last winter, I headed out to take a look. The camp is situated next to Latches Fen, at the…
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April 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM
bongboots.bsky.social
Rawlsbury Camp on Bulbarrow Hill
#aerial #aerialphotography #drone #dronephotography #hillfort #IronAge #landscape #landscapephotography #multivallate #Spring
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
bongboots.bsky.social
Rawlsbury Camp on Bulbarrow Hill
#aerial #aerialphotography #drone #dronephotography #hillfort #IronAge #landscape #landscapephotography #multivallate #Spring
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
It's the last #HillfortsWednesday of June (and also the last one of #Durotriges26) so to celebrate / commemorate, here's a mighty Iron Age enclosure from central Dorset:

Eggardon Hill, looked after by @nationaltrust.org.uk

📷 February 2020 of the sinuously rampartular multivallate south circuit
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort as seen through a wooden 5 bar gate
July 1, 2026 at 5:06 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
It's #HillfortsWednesday at last!

To celebrate, here's the glorious multivallate 3 hectare Iron Age enclosure of Pilsdon Pen #Dorset from the air, NW at the top 🤩

📷 © David Hymans citizen science project #Airchaeology

www.airchaeology.org/2018/08/31/p...
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort from the air, surrounded by field boundaries, hedgerows and trees
May 27, 2026 at 5:02 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
A stunning aerial view of the magnificent multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings #Dorset 🤩

Now looked after @nationaltrust.org.uk

© David R Abram

Displayed in the 2022 *Ancient Sites from the Air* exhibition @salisburymuseum.bsky.social

Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort, with trees at the centre, from the air
May 20, 2026 at 6:44 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Gotta love Woodbury hillfort 👍

A much overlooked multivallate multiangular 5.5ha Iron Age #Dorset gem 😍

📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

#HillfortsWednesday
A grass covered Iron Age hillfort from the air bordered by trees and with a farm and track way through the centre
April 22, 2026 at 7:18 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The mighty multivallate hillfort atop Hambledon Hill has been dominating #Dorset since the Iron Age

It has never looked more magnificent than in this wood engraving ink print by (and © of) Howard Phipps 🤩

For more see:

howardphipps.co.uk

Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
A black and white print from a wood engraving of a tree and field of wheat with the ramparts of a grass covered Iron Age hillfort in the distance
April 8, 2026 at 7:45 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Abbotsbury Castle is a roughly triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort encircling 1.8ha of a limestone outcrop overlooking the Jurassic Coast betwixt Bridport and Weymouth in Dorset

We love it 😍

Here looking NE dominating the B3157 coast road

📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

#HillfortsWednesday
A grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with a road bottom right and trees behind
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The earlier, single rampart and ditch (univallate) hillforts usually have more scattered / slighter evidence of settlement (houses / pits) and the later multivallate have large timber roundouses, grannaries, storage facilities and roads, but yes they all have occupation evidence of some kind 👍
January 28, 2026 at 10:10 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Happy Winter Solstice / Christmas from the land of the Durotriges!

We're going to close the hillfort gate for a couple of days, so take care out there and see you all soon

All together now:

"After all there's only one more multivallate Iron Age enclosure till Christmas"

#HillfortsWednesday
An Iron Age horseman wearing a red Santa hat and carrying a carnyx and shield rides an antler and red nose wearing horse over a wreath of holly surrounded by the words Merry Christmas to you and silver tinsel
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Twas the last #HillfortsWednesday before Christmas

When all through Dorset

Not a rampart was stirring

Not even the sinuously muscular multivallate eastern circuit of Eggardon Iron Age hillfort

(here captured from the road that skirts its NE side in Feb 2020)

Happy Holidays everyone !!
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort on the horizon with tarmac road and two barbed wire fences in tne foreground
December 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset

We absolutely love it 😍

📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223

somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105

#HillfortsWednesday
The tree covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort surrounded by fields and hedgerows from the air in a black and white photograph
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Waving to Old Sarum 👋

The mighty multivallate Iron Age hillfort, just NE of Salisbury #Wiltshire, reused as Roman town and Medieval motte and bailey, rears up as you come in to land at the nearby airfield

📷 Oct 2016

#HillfortsWednesday
The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort and exposed masonry atop a medieval motte and bailey castle as seen from a descending aircraft, wing at top of picture
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

Here's the NW edge of the mighty multivallate Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset

The arrow-straight #Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum to the left of the modern track photo

Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011

see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk
The grass covered earthworks of an iron age hillfort to the right of photo with trees beyond A modern track and a Roman road to the left
August 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM