Oct 1, 2026
Some hillfort entrances align with solstices and equinoxes, suggesting that Iron Age communities marked time as carefully as they marked territory.
Sep 25, 2026
Earthworks are more than walls — their shape, scale, and siting reveal how Iron Age communities thought about defence, display, and daily life.
Oct 1, 2026
Roundhouses, hearths, querns, and middens — the small finds from hillfort interiors paint a vivid picture of ordinary Iron Age life.
Aug 27, 2026
Britain's largest hillfort shows how successive generations layered defences, entrances, and meaning onto a single hilltop.
Sep 10, 2026
From flotation tanks to isotope analysis, modern techniques squeeze remarkable detail out of the smallest fragments.
Sep 10, 2026
Hillforts were the monumental centres of their age, but the majority of Iron Age people lived in unenclosed farmsteads and hamlets.
Sep 1, 2026
Hillfort gates were elaborate, vulnerable, and endlessly rebuilt — and that cycle of destruction and repair tells us more about Iron Age warfare than any weapon hoard.
Hillfort Herald
Earthworks are more than walls — their shape, scale, and siting reveal how Iron Age communities thought about defence, display, and daily life.
