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Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell

Aerial photo looking down on the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort and stone walls of a medieval castle
A castle and tree covered hill stands in the distance with clouds behind, before a small visitor information board
Digital scans of prehistoric skeletons printed in 3D for museum display
A baked clay loomweight held in the hands of an archaeologist with grass in the background
Two happy men in similar outfits sitting in chairs surrounded by history books
Painted recreation of the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with wooden gate and ravens
A Neolithic awl or borer, a piercing tool made of flint, held in the hand of an archaeologist
An archaeologist dances through the ripening crop atop a section cut through an Iron Age ditch
Two archaeologists working on paper records in the shade of a blue and white striped tent on a blisteringly hot day
Black and white aerial photograph of a ploughed out Iron Age hillfort with ditches showing up dark against the white chalk
Aerial view of an archaeological trench cut down to chalk, within the green crops of a modern field
Aerial photo showing an archaeological trench surrounded by spoil heaps, marquee and huts
An archaeologist lies on the dusty ground with hat over his face and a red and white photo scale in his left hand
Archaeologists excavating an Iron Age ditch in the sun
An archaeologist in a yellow hi vis vest looks down at an archaeologist in a hard hat down a chalk cut pit
Archaeologists sitting between metal sheds drinking tea
Archaeologists recording archaeological features
Three archaeologists in a field, one up a ladder
Three archaeologists, two in yellow hi viz vests, record archaeological features whilst behind them, a canine archaeologist in a yellow hi viz vest takes a brief nap
Archaeologists, not in yellow hi viz vests, sit upon the chalk, examining site section drawings
Archaeologists washing archaeological finds using toothbrushes and washing up bowls
Aerial drone footage of an archaeological trench. Reconstruction Iron Age roundhouse overlay courtesy of Derek Pitman and drone footage by Harry Manley
Archaeological sections cut through a prehistoric ditch. Not millions. More like 25
Archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests stand before a section cut through the fill of an Iron Age ditch with red and white photo scales
4 archaeologists not at all affected by having to complete 756 context sheets
Archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests standing in a trench
Looking down at a half sectioned chalk cut prehistoric with red and white poles for scale
Two archaeologists in yellow hi viz recording contexts in an Iron Age ditch with red safety fence panels and a spoilheap behind
Two archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests say hello whilst standing with a machine that goes ping in a trench
Two archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests sit ar thw bottom of a prehistoric ditch
Archaeologists happy in a ditch
The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort as seen through a wooden 5 bar gate
Is it a reconstruction Iron Age chariot or a magnetometry array? Three archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests ponder
Durotriges Project director Miles in hi vis vest and stick in a field
An archaeologist in yellow hi viz vest kneels before a prehistoric rubbish deposit
Big red sign saying thank you for viditing
Two happy archaeologists in yellow hi viz vests stand in a grass field with trees behind
Sign with arrow pointing towards the BIG DIG pointing up a track through a field of crop
An archaeologist holds an Iron Age pot in his hands
An archaeologist in yellow hi viz vest holds an Iron Age shale core
Aerial photo looking down at a prehistoric ditch being excavated in sections, all surrounded by green fields and sky
Archaeologists working in a trench in a field beneath a cloud flecked sky
Archaeologists conducting a geophysical survey in a green field
An archaeologist punching a Nazi on his way to work
Hercule Poirot considers the relative heat and humidity of central Dorset in the film of the Agatha Christie novel *Why is the weather in summer so weird?* with famous Dorset monuments the Sphinx and Great Pyramid in the background
Reconstruction of an Iron Age hillfort showing thatched roundhouses inside a set of ramparts
Sweating in the desert sun, dreaming of it being Ice Cold in Alex
An archaeologist holds a fragment of Neolithic granite axe