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  • North Wales hillfort test of Iron Age communication

    03/20/2011 6:22:57 PM PDT · by decimon · 36 replies
    BBC ^ | March 20, 2011 | Unknown
    An experiment has shed light on how Iron Age people communicated from their hilltop homes 2,500 years ago. About 200 volunteers stood on the summit of 10 hillforts in north Wales, the Wirral and Cheshire, and signalled to each other with torches. Their aim was to learn if communities used the summits to warn each other. "It was a success," said archaeologist Erin Robinson. "It captured the public's imagination and we made extra links we did not think were possible." Saturday night's Hilltop Glow event was rescheduled after December's severe weather. The ancient sites used were on the Clwydian Range;...
  • Stone Age satnav: Did ancient man use 5,000-year-old travel chart to navigate across Britain

    09/15/2009 1:13:16 PM PDT · by BGHater · 24 replies · 1,495+ views
    The Daily Mail ^ | 15 Sep 2009 | David Derbyshire
    It's considered to be one of the more recent innovations to help the hapless traveller. But the satnav system may not be as modern as we think. According to a new theory, prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a similar system based on stone circles and other markers. The complex network of stones, hill forts and earthworks allowed travellers to trek hundreds of miles with 'pinpoint accuracy' more than 5,000 years ago, amateur historian Tom Brooks says. The grid covered much of southern England and Wales and included landmarks such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, claims Mr Brooks,...