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, 2019 Hillforts represent the largest and arguably most impressive archaeological monuments in the Irish landscape. While the study of hillforts progressed rapidly in Britain during the twentieth century, it was not until the work of Barry Raftery in the late 1960s and 70s that these great enclosures became the focus of sustained research in Ireland. Raftery'
O'Driscoll, James +2 more
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Reproduction of melting behavior for vitrified hillforts based on amphibolite, granite, and basalt lithologies [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 European Bronze and Iron Age vitrified hillforts have been known since the 1700s, but archaeological interpretations regarding their function and use are still debated.
John S. McCloy +11 more
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Hillforts – built by collective action or coercive leadership? Socio-economic and military organization in eastern Norway AD 1–600 [PDF]
VikingIn this article, we will examine the socio-economic and military landscape of the Early Iron Age (AD 1–600) in the historical county of Vingulmark, which consisted of the area from Eiker in the west to Bohuslän in the east.
Marie Ødegaard, Arild L. Teigen
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Hillforts and Defended Enclosures of the Welsh Borderland
Internet Archaeology, 2018 Hillforts and defended enclosures are among the earliest and most enduring landmarks in the landscape of the Welsh borderland region and are vital to our understanding of its social and economic history for a millennium and a half, from the Late Bronze ...
W.J. Britnell, R.J. Silvester
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Hillforts and Power in the British Post-Roman West: A GIS Analysis of Dinas Powys [PDF]
, 2021 The (re)occupation of hillforts was a distinctive feature of post-Roman Europe in the fifth to seventh centuries AD. In western and northern Britain, hillforts are interpreted as power centres associated with militarized elites, but research has paid ...
Sucharyna Thomas, L., Seaman, A.
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Hillforts in the Eyes of Residents
Lituanistica, 2018 The article presents a summary of the findings from a residents’ survey conducted by the students of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (former Vilnius Pedagogical University) from 2007 to 2010 as part of their fieldwork practice in regional studies.
Malonaitis, Arvydas, Arvydas Malonaitis
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Hillfort gate-mechanisms: a contextual, architectural reassessment of Eddisbury, Hembury, and Cadbury hillforts [PDF]
Archaeological Journal, 2020 This paper offers a typology of hillfort gate-mechanisms, and a developed understanding of temporal depth in hillfort architecture – via applied contextual analysis. Rediscovery of the Eddisbury hillfort archive revealed three iron gate-mechanisms. To situate these rare objects, detailed analyses of entrance architecture and stratigraphy was conducted –
Pope, Rachel +4 more
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Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2017 In this paper, the authors present and discuss three early medieval hillforts: Stradów, Demblin and Szczaworyż, excavated by the former Zakład Archeologii Małopolski IHKM in the 1950’s and 1960’s in Lesser Poland.
Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski +1 more
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Bronze Age Hillforts around Rovinj on the western coast of the Istrian Peninsula and their pottery
IpoTESI di Preistoria, 2022 Since the 19th century, the interest of scholars and lovers of antiquity has been focused on the prehistoric hillfort settlements, also known as gradine, castellieri or kastelliere, on the Istrian peninsula. Several hundred of these fortified settlements,
Anja Hellmuth Kramberger +2 more
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A Tauriscan Lt D obol from Lobor hillfort (Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia)
Arheološki Vestnik, 2023 A small silver coin complementary to the Augentyp-Stamm Tauriscan obols was found in controlled archaeological excavations at the Lobor hillfort. The hillfort was fortified in the late La Tène period (Lt D), which is also the most likely depositional ...
Tomislav Bilić
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