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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 Iron Age hillforts have remained dominating features in the British landscape: as ethnologist J. Forde-Johnston noted, "Of all the earthworks that are such a notable feature of the landscape in England and Wales few are more prominent or more striking than the hillforts built during the centuries before the Roman conquest."
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 Iron Age (c. 1200 – c. 550 BC) is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after ... "Mass burial suggests massacre at Iron Age hill fort".
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 ...
The hillfort extends to the right of this south-facing image, covered by woodland. South Weald Camp was a hillfort based in South Weald, Brentwood, Essex, England. Roughly circular in plan, the fort covered 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres), with a suggested construction date in the late Iron Age, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. [1]
Pen Dinas (Welsh pronunciation: [pɛn ˈdiːnas]) is a large hill in Penparcau, on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales, (just south of Aberystwyth) upon which an extensive Iron Age, Celtic hillfort is situated. The site can easily be reached on foot from Aberystwyth town centre and is accessible via a series of well marked trails.
Caerau Hillfort is the third largest Iron Age hillfort in Glamorgan, [3] enclosing 5.1 hectares (13 acres), and is surrounded by housing and the A4232.It was once a stronghold of the powerful Silures tribe who inhabited this part of Wales before the arrival of the Romans.