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YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective How do you build a massive Hillfort anyway?

If you’ve always wanted to get into Iron Age hillforts, the first half of this video by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social is a really great, accessible introduction to what they are, and the varying forms the take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

#MosaicMonday & the mosaics at Rockbourne Roman Villa

See more of Ancient Hampshire & Wiltshire in our Hillforts Episodes >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

Cloud Inversion at Bratton Camp
i'll never forget this one, this was an incredibly special evening

See more in the new episode, which also includes a bit of an explainer on Hillfort types & how they were constructed >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

#AncientSiteSunday

Of all the things that have survived of Ancient Rome, the Baths of Caracalla are unbelievable in their scale, still standing at 5-6 storeys tall after 2000 years
See more of ancient Rome in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmJT...

#RomanSiteSaturday
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#RomanSiteSaturday & Serdica: what is now Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬
contains a lot of Roman remains including this early c4 church, built in the ruins of what was formerly a baths

See more of Sofia in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EptH...

#RomanSiteSaturday & while Antequera 🇪🇸 is famous for its dolmens or its islamic fortress, somewhat forgotten in the north east of the town: the ruined baths of Río de la Villa

See more of Antequera in our Malaga episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqN...

#RomanSiteSaturday & of all the ancient cities in Sicily, Termini is not one you hear about all that often but other than the fragments of an amphitheatre it also has some great spans of aqueduct surviving

See more of it in our episode on the Sicilian north coast >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms5X...

of all the Roman sites you can visit, words really fail to express the rush of seeing Aphrodisias 🇹🇷

it is an utterly extraordinary place, you can see more of it on the episode(s) roadtripping from Bodrum to Troy & back again >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESEI...

#RomanSiteSaturday
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I mean i have some of that too! but yh do try to keep it light 😊

#AncientTheatreThursday & the absolutely gorgeous theatre of Termessos 🇹🇷

Caught this on a 72hr dash between 7 Ancient Cities around Antalya which you can catch here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-j...

#RomanFortThursday with Brecon-y-Gaer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
the lengthy shadows in the morning not doing us any favours, but a good chance to get a look at the gates & the overall square shape

#HillfortsWednesday wil Woolbury Ring, just to the west of Winchester

See more of the Hillforts of Hampshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...

#MosaicMonday & its the spectacular Fullerton Mars Mosaic, laid around 360 AD
now housed in the Museum of the Iron Age, Andover

See more from around Hampshire & Danebury in our new Hillforts episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...

Conversely, this might be an option worth exploring >>>

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-qk...

I know none of us want to talk about this but um ...when Huxley eventually makes a trip to the great mosaic floor in the sky... 😬

can we all agree to deposit him in a chalk pit with some really odd items
raising v confusing questions about c21 burial customs for some future arch dept
#DoItForHuxley

#AncientSiteSunday with Ladle Hill, the great unfinished hillfort

See more of it & the Hillforts of Hampshire & Wiltshire in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...

What a lineup! 🛖

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There's also this Roman stonework set in the church wall above what is now the kitchen

#RomanSiteSaturday

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Circling back to the church, it has some great Roman fragments in there, such as this segment of mosaic floor

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#RomanSiteSaturday

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A few yards away some commercial premises and residential buildings
Interesting note, since the reconstruction was painted in 1958, we now believe these buildings would've been single-storey

#RomanSiteSaturday

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In the north west of the town, the courtyard house
The earliest iteration was likely a timber structure on stone foundations from c2-3
Later rebuilt in late c3

#RomanSiteSaturday

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Just behind it, the forum basilica

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So a few highlights, firstly the Romano-British temple at the centre of town

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Borrowing some pics from our last visit we got a good look at the walls which are an incredible surviving example, however we didn't catch as much of the rest of the town

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So this all started when i saw the Paulinus Stone in Toby's book @drtobydriver.bsky.social & had to catch it on our way past into Wales

[*Cough* here and all good book shops *Cough* >>>
logastonpress.co.uk/product/hill... ]

#RomanSiteSunday

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YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective The most thoroughly studied Hillfort in Europe?

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Before we get going, a lot of you have caught that we're working through the Hillforts of Britain - we're aiming towards Wales, but right now we're in Hampshire & Wiltshire, particularly Danebury & the surrounding

catch it here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I1...

#RomanSiteSaturday & this week we had a chance to briefly revist Venta Silurum, now Caerwent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

a thread 🧵👇

#FontsOnFriday and the c11 font in Brecon Cathedral 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
a wonderful example from the Hereford school

#AncientTheatreThursday with the amphitheatre of Avenches 🇨🇭