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Hillforts in Britain refers to the various hillforts within the island of Great Britain. Although the earliest such constructs fitting this description come from the Neolithic British Isles, with a few also dating to later Bronze Age Britain, British hillforts were primarily constructed during the British Iron Age.
In Wales, the hillfort at Dinas Powys was a late Iron Age hillfort reoccupied from the 5th-6th centuries CE; [14] similarly at Castell Dinas Brân a hillfort of c. 600 BCE was reused in the Middle Ages, with a stone castle built there in the 13th century CE. [15] Some Iron Age hillforts were also incorporated into medieval frontier earthworks.
Forde-Johnston, James (1962). "The Iron Age Hillforts of Lancashire and Cheshire". Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. 72: 9– 46. Forde-Johnston, James (1976). Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales: a survey of the surface evidence. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-381-0. Sutton, J. E. G. (1966).
The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC. 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 Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
It dates from the late Iron Age or early Romano-British period. [26] [27] Black Ball Camp British Camp Iron Age: 1007668 [28] Dunster: Black Ball Camp is an Iron Age hillfort on the northern summit of Gallox Hill.
The Dinas Powys hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort near Dinas Powys, Glamorgan, Wales. [1] It is just one of several thousand hillforts to have been constructed around Great Britain during the British Iron Age, for reasons that are still debatable. The main fort at Dinas Powys was constructed on the northernmost point of the hill in either the ...
Considered to date back to the Iron Age with evidence of use in Roman times. [6] Castle Dike Langsett. South Yorkshire: Earthwork bank and ditch of an Iron Age univallate hillfort or enclosure. About 90m by 50m, on the flat top of Gilbert Hill. [7] Castle Naze: Near Chapel-en-le-Frith. Derbyshire: Iron Age promontory hillfort on Combs Moss ...
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.