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    Sutton Walls Hillfort is an elongated ovoid Iron Age Hill fort located 4 miles (6 km) north of the city of Hereford, England. It was added to the Sites...
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    Hereford Cathedral Kilpeck Church Malvern Hills Herefordshire Beacon Priory Church, Leominster Sutton Walls Hill Fort Wigmore Castle Welsh Newton The M50,...
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    footpath passes through the village and, heading south, then crosses Sutton Walls Hill Fort. A company growing, packing, importing and exporting soft fruit...
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  • List of hill forts in Scotland List of hill forts in Wales Iron Age, British Iron Age, prehistory Morris, Steven (21 June 2017). "Hill fort hotspots in...
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    western sides becoming part of the Wall which was built around 200. The incorporation of the fort's walls gave the walled area its distinctive shape in the...
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    2010. Gail Lynn Walls, Patricia Miller and J.T. Sutton (May 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fort Boreman" (PDF)...
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    land attack, the gorge at the rear of the fort was guarded by two curtain walls and a wet moat. The walls were part of a bombproof shelter with loopholes...
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    Sutton Coldfield or the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, known locally as Sutton (/ˌsʌtən ˈkɒldfiəld/ pronunciation), is a town and civil parish in the...
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  • Berry Mound (category Hill forts in Worcestershire)
    second entrance located on an axis with the first, as at the similar Sutton Walls Hill Fort. The site was excavated in 1959, with traces of timber revetments...
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    Martello tower (redirect from Martello Fort)
    high with walls about 8 feet (2.4 m) thick. In some towers the rooms were not built in the centre, but more to the landside, leaving the walls thicker on...
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    obstacle immediately outside the walls. In suitable locations they might be filled with water. A moat made access to the walls difficult for siege weapons...
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    South Cadbury (redirect from Sutton Montis)
    the location of the hill fort of Cadbury Castle, thought by some to be King Arthur's Camelot. The name Cadbury means Cada's fort and refers to Cadbury...
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    rancher from Fort McKavett, founds Sonora, Texas, named after a family servant from Sonora, Mexico. 1887 The Texas legislature establishes Sutton County, carved...
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  • Royal, Bury St Edmunds Sutton Hoo Thorington Hall Abinger Roughs and Netley Park, Abinger Hammer/Wotton Bookham Commons Box Hill Clandon House (Largely...
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    Maiden Castle, Dorset (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age...
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    British Camp (category Hill forts in Herefordshire)
    British Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills. The hill fort is protected as a Scheduled Ancient...
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    with mud walls" with masonry of oyster shell lime in which cannon were mounted to defend Boston from attack by sea. The first commander of the fort was Captain...
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    Mount Caburn (category Hill forts in East Sussex)
    River Ouse. On the summit of Caburn are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. The hill fort has been repeatedly excavated, by Augustus Pitt Rivers from 1877–78...
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    reference SK377910) is an Iron Age hill fort near Wincobank in Sheffield, England. The fort stands on an isolated sandstone hill that forms the northern side...
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    394). It passes through Alcester, Studley, Redditch, Metchley Fort, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Derby. Four Roman roads...
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    Wandlebury Hill Fort, also known as the Wandlebury Ring, is an Iron Age hillfort located on Wandlebury Hill in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, England...
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    Story of Old Fort Sill. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806118567. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boot hill cemeteries. Boot Hill Museum, Dodge...
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    Eddisbury hill fort, also known as Castle Ditch, is an Iron Age hill fort near Delamere, Cheshire, in northern England. Hill forts are fortified hill-top settlements...
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    the hill's summit is the Iron Age hill fort of Walbury Camp, whilst the flanks of the hill lie within the Inkpen and Walbury Hills SSSI. The hill is one...
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    Mam Tor (category Hill forts in Derbyshire)
    being re-designated as the A6187. The hill is crowned by a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hill fort, and two Bronze Age bowl barrows. At...
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    Badbury Rings (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple...
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    Helsby hill fort is an Iron Age hillfort overlooking the village of Helsby in Cheshire, northwest England. Helsby Hill has steep cliffs on the northern...
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    Castle (redirect from Château-fort)
    Egypt, and China where settlements were protected by large walls. In Northern Europe, hill forts were first developed in the Bronze Age, which then proliferated...
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    Boddington Camp (category Hill forts in Buckinghamshire)
    Buckinghamshire, England. It is a scheduled monument. The fort is on the summit of Boddington Hill. There is a single rampart and outer ditch, in an oval...
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  • Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk...
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