Category: New Sites

Dunagoil Hillfort, (Isle of Bute, Argyll & Bute)

Filed under Archaeology, Bronze Age, Dark Ages, Defensive Structures, Early Medieval, Hill Fort, Iron Age, New Sites, Vitrified Fort

Dunagoil crowns a 30 m-high columnar-basalt promontory on the south-west coast of Bute, overlooking the Sound of Bute and the Cumbraes. Cliffs on the north and west form natural ramparts; only the gentle ESE saddle gives easy access.

How Hill Hillfort, Swaledale

Filed under Archaeology, Brigantia, Hill Fort, Iron Age, New Sites

How Hill, near Downholme in North Yorkshire, is the site of a large univallate hillfort.

Brigantia, Downholme, Earthworks, Enclosure, Hill Fort, How Hill, Iron Age
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May 22

Coverdale: Nathwaite Bridge river crossing points

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Ford, Landscape Archaeology, New Sites, Regional Surveys

Nathwaite Bridge, over the river Cover in Coverdale, is just about the only way any heavy traffic can easily cross between the key villages of Carlton and West Scrafton. The importance of the location is perhaps underlined as the last place down the river Cover where it remains reasonably ford-able, and therefore crossable in past times when no closer bridge existed.