Between the mid-18th and late-19th centuries the British Parliament passed almost 5,000 local “Inclosure Acts.” Each Act authorised a team…
At its core the “hero” is the figure who steps out of ordinary society, confronts chaos or a monster, and…
In a series of annual military campaigns Agricola put down revolts in north Wales, subdued the Brigantes tribe in the…
Snake Iconography in the British Isles The emergence and spread of certain iconographic symbols, such as that of a snake,…
A gazetteer of probable prehistoric mounds, cairns and boundary earthworks in Coverdale. It is not complete and is still being…
Over the last five years Iron-Age specialists have been re-examining what British hillforts were really for. The question is no…
On every late-Victorian and early-20th-century OS sheet the surveyors marked any conspicuous heap of stones they could not instantly classify…
These are raised platforms created first and foremost for cult, procession, assembly or conversion—not for fortification or routine boundary-making. They…
These are artificial hills made from the unwanted rock, shale and tailings that come up with coal, metal ore, stone…
Hillfort mounds Hillfort mounds are elevated, man-made (or heavily modified) earthen platforms whose crests carry ramparts, palisades or stone walls…