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Scientists Have Uncovered Evidence Of #Ireland's Largest #Prehistoric #Hillfort Settlement
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https://phys.org/news/2025-12-scientists-uncovered-evidence-ireland-largest.html
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“In a recent study [(link above), the authors] identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring hillfort [Ireland], making it the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland thus far. Subsequent test excavations revealed evidence of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age occupation as well as a potential water cistern, which may be the very first of its kind in an Irish hillfort…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #survey ##bronzeage #prehistoric #irishhistory #irishmythology #wicklow #irelandsancienteast #heritageireland #mountains #monument #microtopographical #houseplatforms #culture #settlement #village #EarlyIronAge #BrusselstownRing #bronzeage #Neolithic #testpit #sampling #archaeology #excavation #cistern #monuments #Wicklow #investigation #reconstruction #irish #history
@MonumentalIreland

Archaeologists Reveal Hundreds Of Ancient Monuments Using LiDAR [Ireland]
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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/04/archaeologists-reveal-hundreds-of-ancient-monuments-using-lidar/151775 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.39 <-- shared paper
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[the first photo is Queen Maeve's Cairn, on the top of Knocknarea, near Sligo - so not in the study area, but one I have had the pleasure of hiking up to see]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #LiDAR #remotesensing #Ireland #earthobservation #archaeology #Antiquity #Baltinglass #CountyWicklow #hillfort #Neolithic #bronzeage #ancienthistory #prehistory #model #modeling #3dmodeling #elevation #cairns #monuments #cursus #worship #ritual #form #ceremony #morphology #geomorphometry

Nordy Bank is a univallate hillfort on the flanks of Brown Clee Hill, the highest hill in Shropshire.
Here's a composite of some 540+ drone photos, mostly from a P4Pro, but some from a Mavic Pro, all stitched together using OpenDroneMap of the hillfort and it's environs.
OpenDroneMap handled the 2 sets of images from 2 different drones effortlessly!
#HillFortWednesday #Shropshire #Drone #DroneMapping #uk #CleeHills #AerialMapping #DronePhotograhy #HillFort #OpenDroneMap