Category: Fort

Nov 23

The Story of Boltby Scar

Filed under Brigantes, Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Bronze Age, Celtic Tribes, Defensive Dike, Defensive Walls, Dike, Europe, Fort, Hair Braid - Ring, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Landscape Archaeology, Linear Earthworks, Mining Landscape, Promontory fort, Stories of Brigantia

Boltby is a very important ancient site IMO. A gold “hair braid”, was found there, linking it to the Amesbury Archer, buried with two similar hair braids. This also provides a link to the founding of Stonehenge, which helps set a potential scene for a possible “zeitgeist”, of the day.

Amesbury Archer, boltby, Brigantia, Bronze Age, Dykes, Enclosure, Hair Braid, Roulston, Scar, Stonehenge, Stories of Brigantia, Yorkshire Moors
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Mamucium Roman Fort, Manchester

Filed under Altar, Defensive Structures, Fort, New Sites, Roman, Roman army, Roman Road

Mamucium occupies a low sandstone promontory at the junction of the Rivers Medlock and Irwell. The bedrock is the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, a firm, well‑drained red sandstone that gave Roman engineers a stable platform for earthworks and timber palisades, while nearby river gravels supplied road‑making aggregate.

altar, Fort, Lancashire, Mamucium, Manchester, Roman, Roman Fort, Vicus
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Castro de Trona fort – Pontevedra, Spain

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia Espania, Castro Hillfort, Fort, Late Iron Age, New Sites, Roman, Terraces

Castro de Trona is an oval enclosure with significant terracing to the west and a large ditch to the east. This castro (a hillfort settlement) has an accepted date of around 600 BCE. Like many others in Galicia, this castro reached its peak during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. It measures approximately 200 metres east to west by 150 metres north to south.

Brigantes, Brigantia, Castro, Castro de Troña, Fort, Galicia, Hill Fort, Iron Age, myth, mythology, Ponteareas, Pontevedra, Roman, Snakes, Spain
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Doncaster Roman Fort (Danum)

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Defensive Structures, Europe, Fort, New Sites, Roman, Roman army

← South Yorkshire Roman Rig Defensive Works The Roman Rig is a defensive dyke built to defend against attack from the south. It runs from Sheffield, past Read more Templeborough Roman Fort – Rotherham Templeborough Roman Fort occupies a commanding position on the north bank of the River Don at Rotherham (OS grid SK Read …

Brigantia, Cohors, Danum, Doncaster, Doncaster Roman Fort, Gallorum Equita, Garrison, Gauls, Roman, South Yorkshire, The River Don, Tungrian cavalry, Vicus
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Adwick-le-Street Roman Fort (Derventio)

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Europe, Fort, New Sites, Roman, Roman army

Derventio was an auxiliary fort, it probably housed a mounted ala or an infantry cohort. It is located immediately west of modern Adwick le Street (OS SE 553 008), astride Ermine Street (the Roman Ridge).

Templeborough Roman Fort – Rotherham

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Templeborough Roman Fort occupies a commanding position on the north bank of the River Don at Rotherham (OS grid SK 410 916), where the Magnesian Limestone ridge drops into the floodplain. Originally constructed in timber and earth in the mid–1st century AD, it was later rebuilt in stone and occupied—possibly intermittently—until the withdrawal of Roman authority in the early 5th century AD

Scoles Coppice Fort

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Fort, Hill Fort, Iron Age

Scholes (or Scoles) Coppice Camp (sometimes called “Caesar’s Camp”) lies just north-west of Kimberworth in Rotherham, atop the same Magnesian Limestone ridge that carries the Roman Rig. Its grid reference is roughly SE 436 937, placing it only 200–300 m to the north of the Rig’s northern branch

Brigantes, Brigantia, Camp, Enclosure, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Roman Rig, Scoles Coppice, South Yorkshire
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Barry Hill Fort

Filed under Fort, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

Barry Hill is a textbook “big fort waiting for a small trench”: its spectacular vitrified rampart, enigmatic outer works and Arthurian folklore offer equal attraction to scientists and story-lovers—yet almost everything we know comes from surface survey. A single, well-designed excavation season could pivot the site from picturesque curiosity to a securely dated anchor point in the defensive story of eastern Scotland.

Jan 17

Guide – Applying critical thinking to historic and archaeological research

Filed under Angle, Anglo-saxon, Archaeology, Articles, Brigantia England, Bronze Age, Fort, Guide, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Reports

Often, the key aspect of being able to make progress with regards to researching the past. Is through the application of critical thinking, when it comes to accepting common, or even given understanding and interpretations of what is being explored.

Amgle, Anglo-saxon, archaeological, Brigantes, Brigantia, critical thinking, free thinking, hidden in plain site, historic, Ingleborough, Ingleton, Iron Age, Kingsdale, North, research, Saxon, thinking, Yorkshire
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Elslack Roman Fort

Filed under Brigantia England, Fort, Roman

← West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire North Yorkshire The County of North Yorkshire is a small part of what was once a much larger collection of tribes in Read more Greta …