Notice: Function WP_Scripts::add was called incorrectly. The script with the handle "datatables-responsive" was enqueued with dependencies that are not registered: datatables. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.9.1.) in /home/u621095157/domains/brigantesnation.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

Tag: battle

Jun 16

Hillforts: Defence or Ritual? – Part 1

Filed under Archaeology, Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Critical Thinking, Defensive Structures, Earthworks, Guide, Hill Fort, Univallet Hillfort, Vitrified Fort

Over the last five years Iron-Age specialists have been re-examining what British hillforts were really for. The question is no longer just “fortress or farm?” but whether many of them were built first and foremost as places of gathering, display and ritual.

Ad Gefrin, Barry Cunliffe, battle, Bowden, Castle Dykes, Ceremony, Debate, Defence, Hill Fort, Hill of Tara, hillfort, Iron Age, Julius Caesar, Maiden Castle, McOmish, Mortimer Wheeler, Northumberland, Paulinus, Ringforts, ritual, Ritual First, tacitus, Thornborough Henges, vitrified, Yeavering Bell
Leave comment

Jun 13

The Gododdin (Y Gododdin)

Filed under Articles, Battle, Brigantia England, Dark Ages, Reports

Possibly, the earliest documented battle on Brigantian soil, is described in Y Gododdin, which is a medieval Welsh poem, revered as one of the earliest surviving examples of Welsh/Brythonic poetry, and is attributed to the bard Aneirin.