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There are 1,224 hill forts in England. [1] Although some originate in the Bronze Age, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain). There was a trend in the 2nd century BC for hill forts to fall out of use. [2]
The spellings "hill fort", "hill-fort" and "hillfort" are all used in the archaeological literature. The Monument Type Thesaurus published by the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage lists hillfort as the preferred term. [9] They all refer to an elevated site with one or more ramparts made of earth, stone and/or wood, with an external ...
In the United Kingdom the term fort superseded the term castle in the Tudor period when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves. See also: Castles in the United Kingdom which contains articles about many castles of the 11th to 16th centuries, and some later non-military buildings styled as castles.
Pages in category "British forts" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bombay Castle;
Hillforts were frequently occupied by conquering armies, but on other occasions the forts were destroyed, the local people forcibly evicted, and the forts left derelict. For example, Solsbury Hill was sacked and deserted during the Belgic invasions of southern Britain in the 1st century BC.
The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland was an online database of hillforts―fortified settlements built in the Bronze Age and Iron Age―in the British Isles.It was compiled by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Oxford and University College Cork, led by Ian Ralston and Gary Lock.
Hillforts are fortified settlements that were built across Europe in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and, to a lesser extent, the Early Middle Ages.The following pages are lists of hillforts:
Most of the forts in this category were built between the 16th and 20th centuries. In England the term fort gradually superseded the term castle in the Tudor period (1485-1603) when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves.