• Hillforts in Britain refers to the various hillforts within the island of Great Britain. Although the earliest such constructs fitting this description...
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    hillforts were still built and used for several more centuries. There are over 2,000 Iron Age hillforts known in Britain of which nearly 600 are in Wales...
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  • surviving buildings in the world Hillforts in Britain: List of hillforts in England List of hillforts in Scotland List of hillforts in Wales Newgrange, one...
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    Hillforts in Scotland are earthworks, sometimes with wooden or stone enclosures, built on higher ground, which usually include a significant settlement...
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  • of hillforts in Wales. Din Sylwy (Bwrdd Arthur) (53°18′39″N 4°07′22″W / 53.3108°N 4.1229°W / 53.3108; -4.1229), contour fort Caer Idris Hillfort (53°11′15″N...
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    them to prevent enemy siege engines from weakening defensive walls. Hillforts in Britain started to incorporate glacis around 350 BC. Those at Maiden Castle...
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    B. 1976 Rathgall and Irish Hillfort Problems, In D.W. Harding (ed.) Hillforts: Later Prehistoric Earthworks of Britain and Ireland, London: Academic...
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  • Press. p. 69. ISBN 9781853311987. Harding, D.W. (2012). Iron age hillforts in Britain and beyond (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780199695249...
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  • The landscape of Ireland is dotted with many hillforts. These are classically defined as small hilltop settlements fortified with earthworks, but many...
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  • as hillforts or similar "defended enclosures" within Britain. Hillforts in Britain are known from the Bronze Age, but the great period of hillfort construction...
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    parts of Greece. Leo I joins forces with the Western Empire. Ancient Hillforts in Britain are re-fortified, and the Wansdyke is built (approximate date). Emperor...
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  • other Earthworks in Oxfordshire". Oxoniensia. 31: 28–42. "Hillforts Atlas Project". A crowd-sourced project to map the hillforts of Britain and Ireland....
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    castles in Scotland Hillforts in Scotland Hillforts in Britain Hillfort of Otzenhausen List of hillforts on the Isle of Man List of hillforts in Northern...
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    Danebury (category Hill forts in Hampshire)
    were built in the Iron Age, and it paved the way for future work on hillforts. In the 1920s and 1930s, there was "hill fort mania" in British archaeology;...
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  • in the atlas available to Wikipedia. List of hillforts Hillforts in Britain Hillforts in Scotland "Online hillforts atlas maps all 4,147 in Britain and...
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    and dates to the Iron Age. Ancient Britain was made up of many tribes and kingdoms, associated with various hillforts. The Britons followed an Ancient Celtic...
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    forts were first developed in the Bronze Age, which then proliferated across Europe in the Iron Age. Hillforts in Britain typically used earthworks rather...
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    making it one of the largest hillforts in Britain. It is the only one with a public house in its interior. Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early...
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    list of hillforts of Monmouthshire that have been registered with Cadw as historical monuments. Welsh names are in brackets. List of hill forts in Wales...
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    The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron...
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    can mean "hillfort-dwellers", referring to the fact that hillforts continued to be occupied in this area after they were abandoned elsewhere in Southern...
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    Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh (category Villages in Buckinghamshire)
    during the 1st millennium B.C. Hillforts are usually attributed to the Iron Age, but there are a series of hillforts at intervals along the Chiltern...
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    most important British prehistorians. In this period, she excavated no less than six hillforts, and it was her work in the field of hillfort studies which...
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    England–Wales border (category 1536 establishments in England)
    areas to the east is reflected in the nature of ancient settlements, with the majority of hillforts in Britain found in this western area. During the Roman...
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    Promontory fort (category Buildings and structures in Ireland)
    had close trade ties with southwestern Britain.[clarification needed] When they were attacked by the Romans in Brittany, Julius Caesar reports that Cornwall...
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    Maiden Castle, Dorset (category Buildings and structures completed in the 5th century BC)
    adopting Hardy's name for it. In 1931, Ireland arranged his piece for piano four hands. Hillforts in Britain List of hill forts in England Notes Historic England...
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    ornaments in bronze and then iron started in the late Neolithic and into the Bronze and Iron Ages. The construction of hillforts began in Britain in the Late...
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    Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement. The term was originally...
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    Segsbury Camp (category Hill forts in Berkshire)
    2021. Lock, G; Ralston, I (2017). "Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland - Segsbury Camp". hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on...
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    period, most of the finds showed two phases of occupation in the early Iron Age. Hillforts in Britain Historic England. "Multi-period archaeological landscape...
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