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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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
The next phase was to greatly enlarge the hillfort, with timber laced ramparts, which took in much of the slope of the hill to the north-west, towards the river Severn. The hillfort now measured 300 m by 200 m, [9] and covered 4.4 hectares. The existing banks of this enclosure still in places stand to between 3 m and 8 m in height.
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.
The hillfort was one of the sites excavated by Jeffery Whittaker prior to 1775, which is thought to have been one of the earliest archaeological excavations to have taken place in Wiltshire. The excavation was poorly documented but it is believed that Roman and Saxon coins were found in the vicinity of the fort. [1]
Tre'r Ceiri ([treːr ˈkɛiri] ⓘ) is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age. The name means "town of the giants", from cewri , plural of cawr , "giant". [ 1 ] The settlement is 450 metres (1,480 ft) above sea level on the slopes of Yr Eifl , a mountain on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd , north-western Wales.