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St Michael’s Church, Kirklington

St Michael's Church, Kirklington, North Yorkshire

St Michael’s Church at Kirklington stems from prior to the Norman Period and has ghosts of an even earlier period in the form of the various carved heads found inside and outside the church.

Uffington White Horse

The horse was dated to between 1400–600 BC by the Oxford University Research Unit in 1995 using optical stimulated luminescence dating, its age is probably late Bronze Age.

Oxfordshire

← World Heritage Arka Unskel hillfort, Highlands Arka Unskel is 2½ miles ESE of Arisaig at NM693839 and has also been known as Arisaig Fort, Ard Ghaunsgoik Read more Castle Hill, Almondbury Castle Hill’s imposing silhouette hides a great prehistoric fort, Norman castle and Victorian tower. Thanks to Varley’s trenches and the Read more West …

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Dumphries and Galloway

← World Heritage Arka Unskel hillfort, Highlands Arka Unskel is 2½ miles ESE of Arisaig at NM693839 and has also been known as Arisaig Fort, Ard Ghaunsgoik Read more Castle Hill, Almondbury Castle Hill’s imposing silhouette hides a great prehistoric fort, Norman castle and Victorian tower. Thanks to Varley’s trenches and the Read more West …

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Sutton Common Fort

Sutton Common is an early Iron Age fort/enclosure site just north of Doncaster, A key feature of this “marsh fort” is that it seems to use the surrounding marsh land as part of its defence – a twist on the more common hill fort.

Norham Fort

Norham Iron Age Hill Fort

Housesteads Roman Fort

Carved Heads from Housesteads Roman Fort

Finavon Fort

Finavon Hill has attracted a great deal of archaeological interest from antiquarians and archaeologists over the years especially since it displayed traces of vitrified rock.

Tayside

← World Heritage Arka Unskel hillfort, Highlands Arka Unskel is 2½ miles ESE of Arisaig at NM693839 and has also been known as Arisaig Fort, Ard Ghaunsgoik Read more Castle Hill, Almondbury Castle Hill’s imposing silhouette hides a great prehistoric fort, Norman castle and Victorian tower. Thanks to Varley’s trenches and the Read more West …

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Eileen na Goar Fort

Eilean nan Gobhar

This island, locally termed Eilean na Goar, is the most eastern and is bounded on all sides by precipitous gneiss rocks; it is the abode and nesting place of numerous sea birds. The flat surface on the top is 120 feet from the sea level, and the remains of the vitrified fort are situated on this, oblong in form, with a continuous rampart of vitrified wall five feet thick, attached at the SW end to a large upright rock of gneiss

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