Category: Brigantia

Coverdale

Coverdale, located within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is a valley of great beauty and rich history. Its unique geography, fascinating geology, and enduring heritage combine to create a truly special place. Coverdale is home to at least two Iron Age hill forts, and a long history of mining and landscape transformation

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North Yorkshire

The County of North Yorkshire.

Boltby Scar Iron Age Hill Fort

This Iron Age Hill Fort is mostly unrecorded and minimal information is available. A site visit is required to further Read more

Braithwaite Wood Fort, East Witton

We call Braithwaite Wood Fort Iron Age, but it's actually undated, but its typology indicates a potential Iron Age origin.

Maiden Castle Fort Reeth

For over five hundred years, the miners and smelters of Reeth produced mountains of precious lead. The lead ores from Read more

The Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a large expanse of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, in northern England.  During the Iron-Age, they were in the heart of Northern Brigantia.

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Castle Hill, Almondbury
An image illustrating an article about Vitified Forts – Group Home on thealicesyndrome.com

Underneath these medieval earthworks is a series of earlier defenses which dates back to the early Iron Age. This was Read more

North Yorkshire

The County of North Yorkshire.

Barwick in Elmet Iron Age Hill Fort

"The scale and function of the earthworks, which may comprise a rampart, a ditch and a counterscarp bank, is massive Read more

Boltby Scar Iron Age Hill Fort

This Iron Age Hill Fort is mostly unrecorded and minimal information is available. A site visit is required to further Read more

Feb 11

Unveiling the Archaeological Landscape of Nosterfield

Square Barrow at Nosterfield Quarry, near Thornborough Henges

The Nosterfield Quarry excavation sits at the heart of one of Britain’s most enigmatic prehistoric landscapes—the Thornborough Henges Complex.

Ingleborough Iron Age Hillfort

Ingleborough Hill, located in the Yorkshire Dales, is known for its prehistoric significance, particularly its hill fort. The hill fort atop Ingleborough is located at an elevation of about 723 meters (2,372 feet) above sea level, making it one of the highest known Iron Age settlements in the region.

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Arka Unskel, 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
An image illustrating an article about Vitified Forts – Group Home on thealicesyndrome.com

Underneath these medieval earthworks is a series of earlier defenses which dates back to the early Iron Age. This was Read more

North Yorkshire

The County of North Yorkshire.

Barwick in Elmet Iron Age Hill Fort

"The scale and function of the earthworks, which may comprise a rampart, a ditch and a counterscarp bank, is massive Read more

Curse tablet addressed to the god Bregneus – Bath

Potentially false altar to Brigantia - R Tomlin

‘To the god Bregneus I give the axe which I have lost from my house, (the house) of Hegemon. […] has stolen, he is not to be permitted sleep or health (until) he has brought it to your temple as we ?arrange. The hammer which I previously lost, it also […] ?I give.’

Altar dedicated to Bregans and the Divinity of the Emperor

Altar dedicated to Bregans and the Divinity of the Emperor

Potentially False Altar to Brigantia – Vindolanda

Potentially false altar to Brigantia - R Tomlin

‘The goddess Brigantia.’

Altar dedicated to Victoria Brigantia – Castleford

To the goddess Victoria Brigantia Aurelius Senopianus dedicated this altar.

Altar dedicated to Nympha Brigantia – Castlesteads?

“This offering to the goddess-nymph Brigantia, which he had vowed for the welfare and safety of our Lord the Invincible Emperor Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and of his whole Divine House, Marcus Cocceius Nigrinus, procurator of our Emperor and most devoted to his divinity and majesty, gladly, willingly, and deservedly fulfilled.”

Altar dedicated to Jupiter of Doliche, Caelestis Brigantia, and Salus – Corbridge

“To eternal Jupiter of Doliche and to Caelestis Brigantia and to Salus Gaius Julius Apolinaris, centurion of the Sixth Legion, at the command of the god (set this up).”

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Arka Unskel, 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
An image illustrating an article about Vitified Forts – Group Home on thealicesyndrome.com

Underneath these medieval earthworks is a series of earlier defenses which dates back to the early Iron Age. This was Read more

Barwick in Elmet Iron Age Hill Fort

"The scale and function of the earthworks, which may comprise a rampart, a ditch and a counterscarp bank, is massive Read more

Braithwaite Wood Fort, East Witton

We call Braithwaite Wood Fort Iron Age, but it's actually undated, but its typology indicates a potential Iron Age origin.

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