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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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Middle iron age warfare of the hillfort dominated zone C.400 BC to c.150 BC [PDF]
Studies of Iron Age warfare in Britain are dominated by the overarching model of 'Celtic-ness'. Despite the fact that the uncritical application of Classical writings to the Iron Age has been under assault for some time, warfare as a construct has not ...
Finney, Jon Bryant
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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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Designing Digital Engagements: The SERF Hillforts Project
, 2016 Since 2007 the SERF project has been investigating hillforts in Strathearn, Scotland. To date, ten sites have been excavated by archaeologists from the University of Glasgow.
Watterson, Alice +7 more
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, 2023 The excavations conducted on the Swedish prehistoric hillforts are very limited. However, a lot of people are drawn to them because of their impressive size, which include preserved walls that can reach over three metres in height.
Blad, Tobias
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Norrland Hillforts : Functions & interpretations
, 2021 This study about Norrland’s hillforts has been a way to understand and figure out how the hillforts has been used. By reading previously published literature around mostly Scandinavian hillforts and what they may have had for functions and dating, if the
Brandt, Acke
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Археология евразийских степей, 2021 The paper examines the history of the archaeological study of two hillforts located near Rechki village in Vileyka District of Minsk Oblast. Both sites are located on natural hills and feature a complex fortification system.
Palina S. Kurlovich +2 more
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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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Поволжская археология, 2018 The paper considers the methodological aspects of comprehensive archaeological and geological-geomorphological studies of fortifications dating back to the Early Iron Age – Early Middle Ages.
Khisiametdinova Asia A. +1 more
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