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Remains of an Iron Age hill fort have been uncovered during excavation work to restore a series of caves in Kent. A dig at Margate Caves in preparation for the site being reopened to the public ...
Here’s how it works. The remains of "monumental temples" dating to the Iron Age and medieval buildings may be hidden underground at Navan Fort, an archaeological site in Northern Ireland ...
The BBC series 'Surviving the Iron Age' was filmed at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Buckinghamshire, Ivinghoe Beacon hill-fort, Ivinghoe (SP 960168).
But many more such forts were found, eventually numbering around 200 in Europe, with 70 in Scotland. How did Iron Age people, who built these structures in the first millennium B.C., manage to ...
Now for the first time archaeologists can at last see the contours of a huge iron age hill fort first built and occupied more than 2000 years ago. For the past decade trees covering the site have been ...
The site where the Melsonby Hoard was discovered is close to what was the largest Iron Age hill fort in the north of England, at Stanwick. The fort, located near Richmond, was then the royal ...
He said the known earthworks were probably the "more easily defended fort at the southern tip of the original hillfort, possibly in the Middle Iron Age". He believes the larger settlement ...
The enamelled bronze brooch, thought to date from the late second century CE, may have been used in a foundation offerings ritual at the Iron Age fort, possibly as a votive sacrifice during the ...
In the 65 years of excavations in Al Ain, archaeologists have found “Iron Age villages, forts, temples, aflaj and ancient palm gardens,” but burials were noticeably absent, according to the ...