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There are several hundred hillforts or presumed ancient hillfort sites all over Estonia. Some of them, like Toompea in Tallinn or Toomemägi in Tartu, are governance centres used since ancient times up until today. Some others, like Varbola are historical sites nowadays.
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 .
List of hillforts on the Isle of Man; List of hillforts in Northern Ireland; List of hillforts in Scotland; List of hillforts in England. List of hillforts in the Peak District; List of hillforts and ancient settlements in Somerset; Other List of Estonian fortresses contains a common list of castles, fortresses, forts, an hillforts.
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).
A picture of Brent Knoll Camp showing some of the old walls Somerset is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is a rural county of rolling hills, such as the Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels. Modern man came to what is now known as Somerset during the Early Upper Palaeolithic era. In the Neolithic era ...
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 ...
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 .
Braich-y-Dinas was an extensive hillfort at the summit of Penmaenmawr, one of the northernmost peaks of the Carneddau mountain range on North coast of Wales.It was once considered the best preserved and most complete hillfort in North-West Wales, but completely disappeared in the first half of the 20th century [1] due to a massive quarrying effort by the Darbishire family, which overwhelmed ...