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How To… Tell The Difference Between A Hill And A Hillfort

So you’re standing on top of a hill admiring the view. Yes, the view is very beautiful, but are you missing out on something even more spectacular? We asked Carlos Otero (who will be…

8 Things You Might Find In An Iron Age Roundhouse

Roundhouses became a fairly standard home for people across a large swathe of Europe during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and in Spain, this way of living developed into what is now known as…

Explore Spain’s Celtic Connection And Help Dig An Iron Age Hillfort

A Spanish community is crowdfunding help to excavate an impressive Iron Age hillfort in Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of Spain. Archaeologists are inviting adventurous travellers to join a field school for a week…

Costa dos Castros – Spain’s first successful crowdfunded dig!

It’s taken four months and support from people across three continents, but the people of Costa dos Castros have reached 100% of their first crowdfunding campaign to help them champion the extraordinary Bronze Age…

Site Diary: What Kind of Hillfort Have We Actually Found?

Where is everybody? Or rather, where WAS everybody in the Iron Age, at Chavella hillfort? Because they certainly don’t seem to have been living where we thought they were! All good things come to…

Site Diary: How to Dig an Iron Age Hillfort, Spanish Style!

What happens on the first day of excavation at an Iron Age hillfort? Beer, bagpipes and bulls were not what we expected! The first day of excavation is always one full of anticipation. You…

This Petroglyph Captures the Moment when Atlantic and Mediterranean Cultures Met

Archaeologists are beginning to change their views of the contact made between Atlantic and Mediterranean cultures before the Romans, says Xosé Gago, with increasing evidence that connections were earlier and more intense than previously…

Why Looking for Rock Art is Best Done in the Dark

Sarah has been out to record some of the Bronze Age rock art that lines the Atlantic coast of Spain. Here she tells us why working with these panels is an adventure of body,…

How you can help archaeologists bring an ancient woodland back to life

Archaeologists may be used to rooting around in the ground for clues to the past, but this time they’re planning to regrow a living, breathing piece of history. We spoke to archaeologist Xosé Gago…

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Site Diary: The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plane

Picture this: you’re sitting at a beachside café, feet up, cold bevvie in hand, watching a sunset and talking endless amounts of nonsense with your friends. The table is strewn with the remnants of…

Site Diary: Digging at the Edge of the World

What is it like to dig at the edge of the world? This update from Xosé Gago and the Costa dos Castros project tells it like it is. Here we are, digging at the…
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Five Surprising Things You’d Find at an Iron Age Hillfort in Spain

Something that looks like a weapon but isn’t, and something that doesn’t but is… these are just some of the things you might find on a Spanish Iron Age hillfort. From Maiden Castle to…

New Evidence that Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds Collided Over 3,000 Years Ago

  Archaeologists have found new evidence that Mediterranean people reached the Atlantic coast over 3,000 years ago…and you can get involved! High up in the mountains of Galicia, north-west Spain, lies Costa dos Castros,…

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