13 bluebell and wild garlic-filled miles along the Cotswolds escarpment this morning, taking in Painswick Beacon hillfort, Cooper's Hill cross dyke and Crickley Hill hillfort, with views of Leckhampton hillfort for a finale.
Traprain Law, a whaleback volcanic lump rising to 724ft in East Lothian. It was occupied from the Bronze Age and is said to have been home to King Loth of the Gododdin, who gave Lothian its name. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/eastlinton/traprainlaw/index.html
03/02/2024 - The wind was getting up this evening so we decided on a day walk instead today. A sunny visit to Tap o' Noth. It was still pretty windy but OK. We took the quiet way up to avoid humans. The top is home to a fantastic hillfort. At 563m, it's Scotland's second highest hillfort (Ben Griam Beg in Sutherland is just higher at 580m). The vitrified walls here are just great. We found a sheltered spot to have our lunch and gaze out at the landscape below. A nice day out.
#Celtic#TempleThursday: One of the Dagda’s many children was Áed Minbhrec, who was killed in a jealous rage by a man named Corgenn. Despite his power, the Dagda could not revive his beloved son, but he put a sacred vow on Corgenn, forcing him to carry his victim’s body on his back until he found a stone the exact size and weight of the deceased. Only then could Corgenn rest. Thus the man hauled the body around #Ireland until he found a place for it: the ancient #hillfort of #GrianánAileach.
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday#HillfortsWednesday: The Grianan of Aileach is a #hillfort atop the 244 metres high Greenan Mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal, #Ireland. The wall is about 4.5 metres (15 ft) thick and 5 metres (16 ft) high. Inside it has three terraces, which are linked by steps, and two long passages within it. Originally, there would have been buildings inside the ringfort. Substantial restoration work was carried out in 1870.
Source: Grianan of Aileach - Wikipedia
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday#FairyTaleFlash: On #Arthurs Seat in #Edinburgh there‘s a #hillfort of #IronAge date, which is connected with the legend of Arthur of Britain. Here young people still go on May Day morning in order to wash their faces in the dawn dew and make a wish. Source: Anne Ross #Celtic Britain`
A glorious morning walk up to Brough Law Hillfort. It’s very impressive, and very obviously there, if you see what I mean. #Northumberland#Walking#Hillfort
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Bavaria: The name of this #Celtic village is derived from the ancient name "Gabreta" for the Bavarian/Bohemian forest mountains. The Celts themselves had been resident in Central and Western Europe since around the 8th century BC.
Source: www.gabreta.de
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Obří hrad („Giant's Castle“) is surrounded by a rampart presumably from the Hallstatt and Latène periods near the hamlet of Popelná in the Czech village of Nicov, Jihočeský kraj. For the construction of the #Celtic#hillfort, partly natural rock walls were used, partly stone blocks brought in. The ramparts were most likely covered with palisades. Today, the castle measures 87 × 70 m. The ramparts run in two rows, an outer enclosure and an inner enclosure. The stone blocks used in the walls reach a height of up to 5 m.
Source: Obří hrad – Wikipedia
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at the #hillfort Obří hrad: The „Giant's Castle“ probably dates from the seventh to fifth century BC and is one of the most important testimonies of #Celtic settlement in the Czech Republic.
Source: Obří hrad – Wikipedia
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney the #Celtic#hillfort Obří hrad, Czech Republic: Researchers also consider it possible that the site served as a place of worship. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that no evidence of everyday remains, such as crockery or bones of eaten animals, was found in the central area. The finds from Obří hrad can be seen in the Kašperské Hory Museum.
Source: Obří hrad – Wikipedia
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney the #Celtic#hillfort Obří hrad, Czech Republic: Researchers also consider it possible that the site served as a place of worship. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that no evidence of everyday remains, such as crockery or bones of eaten animals, was found in the central area. The finds from Obří hrad can be seen in the Kašperské Hory Museum.
Source: Obří hrad – Wikipedia
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: #Ceridwen lived on an island in the middle of Lake Bala (Llyn Tegid) in north #Wales with her mate, Tegid Voel (“the bald”), and their two children, the beautiful Creirwy (“light”) and the ugliest little boy in the world, Afagddu (“dark”). To compensate for his unfortunate appearance, Ceridwen planned to make her son a great seer, and to this end this fearsome goddess (sometimes called a witch or sorceress) brewed a powerful secret mixture of herbs. Into her cauldron she piled the herbs to simmer for a year and a day—a magical length of time appropriate to such a concoction. The brew had to be stirred regularly, and Ceridwen was not always on hand to keep the brew mixed. So she set a little boy named #Gwion to stir the cauldron, warning him that he must on no account taste it. Three tiny drops splattered from the cooking pot onto Gwion’s thumb, which he popped in his mouth to ease the burn. Immediately, all the wisdom and inspiration Ceridwen had intended for Afagddu was Gwion’s.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Wales: `Dinas Dinlle #hillfort is a roughly oval defended enclosure, set on the summit of a drumlin. It measures about 150m north-south by 110m and is defined by double ramparts with an intermediate ditch; there is an entrance in the south east. The enclosure has suffered considerable coastal erosion on the west side and from the beach below, the original ground surface beneath the #IronAge ramparts along with other details are clearly visible in the eroded cross-section. Within the eastern part of the interior are traces of circular or rectangular structures or enclosures, one being a potential Bronze Age barrow or alternatively a Roman pharos or lighthouse.
Source: http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95309/details/dinas-dinlle-hillfort-llandwrog
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Wales on #HillfortsWednesday: `Dinas Dinlle is on a 30m high hill of glacial drift on the western edge of the Caernarfonshire coastal plain. This natural hill has been adapted and reinforced in the typical style of an #IronAge#hillfort with defensive central area surrounded by banks and ditches. The fortifications survive on three sides only today, the west side has been eroded away possibly during the last 100 years or so by the sea. Formerly the site may well have stood well inland. Alternatively the glacial hill.
Source: http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95309/details/dinas-dinlle-hillfort-llandwrog
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Wales: Castell Caer Seion is a stone walled #hillfort excavated in 1951 on the summit of Conwy Mountain. It extends over an area approximately 330m from west south-west to east north-east by 100m, having a 'citadel', approximately 65m from east to west by 30m, at the western end. There are some 24 circular structures ranging from approximately 3.0m to 10m diameter located within the enclosures
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How it started and how it's going, Latvian #hillfort in Lelindricas edition. The sequence of uncovering wooden constructions of a rampart in our test pit (1 × 3 m).
At first we thought it was just a burnt tree trunk. Then it became clear we were dealing with woden construction. Now we hope for at least #radiocarbon dates if not some #dendrochronology.
The ramparts of Chesters Hill Fort in East Lothian. This Iron Age fortified village dates back some 2,000 years and is believed to have comprised a number of roundhouses occupying the fairly extensive upper area of the hill. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/northberwick/chesters/index.html