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The Latvian word for hillfort is pilskalns (plural: pilskalni), from pils (castle) and kalns (hill). Hillforts in Latvia offered not only military and administrative functions but they were also cultural and economic centres of some regions. Latvian hillforts generally were a part of a complex consisting of the main fortress, the settlement ...
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: Great Britain List of hillforts in Wales. List of hillforts in Monmouthshire; List of hillforts on the Isle of Man; List of hillforts in Northern Ireland
Michael Avery has stated the traditional view of hillforts by saying, "The ultimate defensive weapon of European prehistory was the hillfort of the first millennium B.C.". [8] By contrast, Professor Ronald Hutton wrote in the English Heritage Members Magazine in March 2020 "It now seems that they were assembly places where farming families ...
A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin fortis ("strong") and facere ("to make"). [1] Maiden Castle in 1935. The Iron Age hillfort was first ...
Walbury Hill, Berkshire Bickerton Hill, Cheshire Castle an Dinas, Cornwall Castle Crag, Cumbria Danebury Ring Arbury Hill The Wrekin Cadbury Castle, Somerset Chanctonbury Ring Bredon Hill Carl Wark, Peak District Wychbury Hill Old Sarum, by John Constable Hembury Hillfort Poundbury Eggardon Hill Eston Nab, North Yorkshire Beacon Hill, Hampshire ...
The remains of at least 1,695 hillforts have been counted throughout the country as a whole, [1] most predominantly on the Scottish mainland, and also including on some of the Scottish islands. One of the highest concentrations of historic hillforts in Europe, according to the Trimontium Trust, is in the Scottish Borders , including ...
Kernavė hillforts. The Kernavė hillforts (Lithuanian: Kernavės piliakalniai, Kernavė hillforts) are five hillforts at the southern edge of Kernavė (Širvintos District, Aukštaitija, Lithuania) in the Pajauta Valley on the right side of the Neris valley. Kernavė is the oldest known (but not the first) capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
The Iron Age hillfort located on Ham Hill, called Ham Hill Hillfort, is possibly the largest hillfort in Somerset. It measures 800 metres (2,600 ft) by 950 metres (3,120 ft), [116] enclosing an area of 81 hectares (200 acres). [117] Ham Hill hillfort is surrounded by banks, some of which range up to 12 metres (39 ft) high, and ditches.