Vitrified forts — How and why?

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RiotGibbon R
RiotGibbon May 28, 2002 11:49:28
Replying to BrigantesNation

woah ... I had no idea that my beloved Castle Hill (aka Almondbury) was involved in this vitrification business ...
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=1819

you're catching my attention, if only
fleetingly. There's something pretty special about that place ... I spent a large part of 1992 sat up there, when I should have been doing discourse analysis on the media reporting on the Rio Earth Summit

actually, it's far too embarrassing to relate what happened up there that summer, but believe you me, there's something strange about that place.

Or, of course, there's something strange about me, a possibility I'm prepared to accept, but lets stick with the hill

I'll go and read up ... this is something I never knew or thought about, and it's making me change my way of thinking about somewhere I thought I knew well ...

nice one BN ... this is what TMA is all about (and acronyms, of course)

RG

B BrigantesNation
BrigantesNation May 28, 2002 12:16:05
Replying to RiotGibbon

I think I've got the most comprehensive research on Almondbury - www.brigantesnation.com look under vitrified forts. The only thing I've not been able to get is details of Mr Varley's dig which was published privately.

I've just thought of something;
Only three vitrified forts in England (I think).
All of them in Brigantia.
located in Sheffield, Huddersfield and Lancs.
Could they align with Orion?

Almondbury was definately a kings castle, very much lord of all I survey rather than lets have a fight. The fields surrounding it were probably well cultivated during Almondbury's hay day.