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There's nothing more universally deflating as a British child than being told you're going to see some ancient hill fort, letting your castle-filled imagination

• rob74 5y ago
  That's why some archaeologists "enhanced" their hills by adding "reconstructed" features that were probably never there in the first place: > [...] O'Kelly concluded that they had made up a retaining wall, but had fallen from the face of the mound. As part of the restoration, this wall was "rebuilt" and the cobblestones were fixed into a near-vertical steel-reinforced concrete wall surrounding the front of the mound. This work is controversial among the archaeological community. [...] Neil Oliver described the reconstruction as "a bit brutal, a bit overdone, kind of like Stalin does the Stone Age". Critics of the new wall claim that the technology to fix a retaining wall at this angle did not exist when the mound was created. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange)
• rjsw 5y ago
  I remember going to several hill forts as a child, don't think I felt deflated, it was interesting to compare them with later castles.