Fortified place · Iron Age
Norman's Law Hillfort
Fife
Two concentric stone ramparts enclosing roughly four hectares mark this as a hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) community of…
- Near St Andrews
- Rough ground
The temporal lens · era 2 of 5
Iron Age Britain & Ireland
Hillforts, brochs and duns from the centuries around the Roman frontier.
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Broch of Gurness
Orkney Islands
The Broch of Gurness is a stone tower and settlement on the north-east coast of Mainland Orkney, overlooking Eynhallow Sound.
- Near Evie
- 141 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Mousa
Shetland Islands
The only broch - a drystone tower, round and hollow-walled, built in the Iron Age, from about 800 BC until the Romans came - still standing nearly…
- Near Sandwick
- 3.2 km from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burghead Fort
Moray
At roughly three times the size of any other early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans) enclosed site in Scotland, th…
- Near Burghead
- 30 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cademuir Hill Fort
Scottish Borders
Two Iron Age forts crown the Cademuir ridge. The larger, Cademuir I, on the summit, enclosed about 2.25 ha within a single 3 m thick stone wall and…
- Near Peebles
- 4.4 km from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Law, Dumyat
Stirling
A hillfort of the Maeatae with a thousand-year gap in its occupation: and a Jubilee beacon on the summit now filled with other people's wishes.
- Near Blairlogie
- 947 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumbarton Castle and Dumbarton Rock
West Dunbartonshire
The longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland: capital of Strathclyde, taken by Vikings in 871 after its water failed.
- Near Dumbarton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunadd Fort
Argyll and Bute
Dunadd is a hillfort in Argyll and Bute, occupied from the Iron Age and into the early medieval period, and believed to have been the capital of th…
- Near Kilmartin
- 237 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Edin's Hall Broch
Scottish Borders
The hilltop on the northeast slope of Cockburn Law was first fortified in the pre-Roman Iron Age, when double ramparts and ditches enclosed an oval…
- Near Duns
- 1.8 km from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eildon Hill North Hillfort
Scottish Borders
Excavation has shown the hillfort: a defended settlement on high ground: was occupied by 1000 BC, in the Bronze Age, roughly 2500–800 BC, when meta…
- Near Melrose
- 1.7 km from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Hownam Rings
Scottish Borders
C. M. Piggott's 1948 excavation at Hownam Rings became a landmark in the archaeology of northern Britain. It produced the 'Hownam model' (or 'Howna…
- Near Hownam
- 1.2 km from car park
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Jarlshof
Shetland Islands
Jarlshof preserves an unusually complete sequence of human occupation, with remains dating from about 2500 BC to the seventeenth century AD.
- Near Sumburgh
- 3 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Tappoch Broch
Falkirk
Tappoch Broch is a scheduled stone tower dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came, whose surviving chamber, staircase and recent conserv…
- Near Torwood
- 20 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Traprain Law
East Lothian
The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC and shows evidence of occupation and ramparts after 1000 BC; the ramparts were rebuilt and…
- Near East Linton
- 25 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
White Caterthun
Angus
The neighbouring Brown Caterthun was repeatedly altered during the latter half of the first millennium BC; White Caterthun preserves the contrastin…
- Near Brechin
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Abbotsbury Castle
Dorset
Earth banks look out from Wears Hill toward the English Channel, above the village and coast at Abbotsbury. Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age (rough…
- Near Abbotsbury
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Aconbury Camp
Herefordshire
Earthworks on Aconbury Hill still mark a long enclosure above the country south of Hereford. Aconbury Camp is a defended hilltop enclosure with lat…
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Iron Age
All Cannings Cross
Wiltshire
A ploughed field's scatter of hammerstones led to the discovery of the site that first revealed how Britain's Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Allt yr Esgair
Powys
A ridge above the Usk carrying an Iron Age hillfort on its summit and a Roman road along its crest: two military uses of the same high ground, cent…
- Near Bwlch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ambresbury Banks
Essex
Ambresbury Banks is a five-hectare defended settlement in Epping Forest dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came. Its archaeology, conse…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
An Dun
Highland
A drystone tower on a tidal islet, reachable only by a boulder causeway at low water: and still argued over as broch, a round, hollow-walled tower…
- Near Ardvar
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Arbury Hill
Northamptonshire
A square Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in st…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
Aston Valley Barrow Cemetery
Wiltshire
The mounds hold burials from two different ages: Bronze Age cremations reopened, centuries on, for Saxon dead: a rare double life for one small gro…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bach Camp
Herefordshire
A single defensive bank still rises over five metres around four hectares of hilltop above the Whyle Brook, yet no spade has ever tested what lies…
- Near Leominster
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Badbury Hill
Oxfordshire
A near-circular Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) enclosure whose name once drew comparison with Arthur's greatest vi…
- Near Great Coxwell
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Baile Mhargaite (Sandy Dun)
Highland
Never excavated and only waist-high in places, its walls, annexe, ditch and outer defence still trace a complete Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the…
- Near Bettyhill
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Balladoole
Isle of Man
Six thousand years of continuous ritual use culminate in a Viking chieftain's boat grave, deliberately cut into the Christian burials it displaced.
- Near Douglas
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Banbury Hill
Dorset
Banbury Hillfort preserves a scheduled Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) enclosure in Dorset, where a surviving rampa…
- Near Okeford Fitzpaine
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Banwell Camp
Somerset
Stone Age artefacts, and others of the Bronze Age, roughly 2500-800 BC, have come off a hill fort raised long after both.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Barbury Castle
Wiltshire
Two deep ditches and ramparts crown a downland vantage point where Roman-era buildings gave way to a Saxon conquest that helped found the kingdom o…
- Near Wroughton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bartinney Castle
Cornwall
Bartinney Castle is an Iron Age hilltop enclosure, dating from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest, in Penwith whose circular eart…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bat's Castle
Somerset
A hillfort mapped for eighty years before anyone recognised it: until schoolboys found eight coins spanning four and a half centuries.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bathampton Down
Somerset
A single bank and flat-bottomed ditch on a limestone plateau 170 metres above the Avon, where the ground falls away towards Bath.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Battlesbury Camp
Wiltshire
An Iron Age fort above Warminster whose pits held a chariot-wheel hub, a carpenter's saw and a door latch-lifter: the gear of people living there.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire
Hampshire
One of Hampshire's best-preserved Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hillforts, settlements defended by banks and ditc…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A defended hilltop on the South Downs in the parish of Elsted and Treyford, known also as Harting Beacon.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Ring
powys
A hilltop enclosure raised in the centuries before Rome arrived, with a royal monogram planted inside it in trees.
- Near Welshpool
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bedd-y-Cawr Hillfort
Denbighshire
One of a dense cluster of hillforts crowning the Rhos Hills above the River Elwy, its name recalling a giant's grave though no burial has ever been…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beech Bottom Dyke
Hertfordshire
It likely belonged to a chain of earthworks - with Devil's Dyke and The Slad - that may have sealed the Catuvellauni's tribal capital between two r…
- Near Hertford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Belbury Castle
Devon
Its very purpose is unresolved: hillfort or livestock pen: and its name preserves a stray echo of Beowulf in the Devon landscape.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Belsar's Hill
Cambridgeshire
A fen-island stronghold that changed hands between prehistory and the Norman Conquest, sitting squarely on the only causeway into rebel-held Ely.
- Near Willingham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bennachie
Aberdeenshire
Its summit fort at Mither Tap has stone ramparts with none of the vitrification seen at other Aberdeenshire hillforts, and the hill has been floate…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Camp
Devon
On a plateau some 140 metres above the sea, where Langham Field on Littlecombe Hill near Branscombe in Devon runs out towards the cliff, the earthw…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Castle, Black Dog
Devon
Berry Castle is an unusual Devon earthwork, a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone, that challenges the expected form a…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Castle, Somerset
Somerset
A defended hillside enclosure near Luccombe, marked by surviving banks.
- Near Luccombe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Head
Devon
An Iron Age hill fort here was largely erased by Napoleonic forts built in a single decade to guard the Torbay fleet from French invasion.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Mound
Worcestershire
Excavation uncovered evidence of a later refortification episode that oddly matches local tradition of King Alfred trapping Danish raiders within i…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Ring
Staffordshire
A hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: whose bank has almost gone but whose ditch is still eighteen metres…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry's Wood
Devon
A single limestone rampart (a defensive bank of earth or stone) still rings a wooded hilltop above the River Lemon, with a sunken approach and a po…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berth Hill
Staffordshire
Josiah Wedgwood II piped water off this hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age, to his hall - damaging the inner rampart, a defens…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bevisbury
Hampshire
A Roman road cuts straight through this Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) fort's ramparts and still does today, as the ordinar…
- Near Chute
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bigbury Camp
Kent
Bigbury Camp is east Kent’s only confirmed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground, prese…
- Near Canterbury
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bindon Hill
Dorset
Bindon Hill is a vast Iron Age: roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: coastal enclosure whose scale and sparse settlement evidence suggest a pas…
- Near West Lulworth
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Black Ball Camp
Somerset
A defended hilltop near Dunster, with a deep ditch and high bank still visible.
- Near Dunster
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Black Castle, East Lothian
East Lothian
A double ring of earthen ramparts with two carefully placed causewayed entrances, sited between two other named hillforts in a dense East Lothian c…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Black Head, Cornwall
Cornwall
Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) ramparts above St Austell Bay share the headland with later military remains and a…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Black Hill (South Lanarkshire)
South Lanarkshire
A hill valued as a viewpoint for four thousand years: with a cairn, a mound of piled stones often covering a burial, that may line up on Tinto to f…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Black Meldon
Scottish Borders
A hillfort whose seven round houses survive as ring-grooves: and five of them stand in a deliberate straight line.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Blackbury Camp
Devon
Blackbury Camp is a well-preserved Middle Iron Age Devon hillfort, an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground between roug…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Blackcastle Hill, East Lothian
East Lothian
A single earthen bank, not the layered ramparts of its grander neighbours, rings this Lammermuir summit: a modest, univallate answer to the same Ir…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Blackdown Rings
Devon
Blackdown Rings preserves an Iron Age hillfort, a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts from about 800 BC, commanding the River Avon valley in…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Blacker's Hill
Somerset
A geophysical survey in 1999 found that the two circuits here were not built together: the fort began with one rampart, a defensive bank of earth o…
- Near Chilcompton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Blewburton Hill
Oxfordshire
Three distinct building phases and a violent final abandonment were followed, centuries later, by an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery dug straight into t…
- Near Blewbury
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bloodgate Hill Iron Age Fort
Norfolk
Bloodgate Hill is Norfolk’s largest known Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort, a 210-metre circular enclosure whose survivi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Boddington Camp
Buckinghamshire
A single rampart: a defensive bank of earth or stone: and ditch enclose some six hectares of wooded hilltop east of Wendover, one of the largest de…
- Near Boddington
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Boringdon Camp
Devon
Boringdon Camp is a scheduled bank-and-ditch monument above the Plym Valley, layered over an older ring ditch and dating from the period the centur…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Borough Hill Roman villa
Northamptonshire
A Roman villa with its own hypocaust heating system, deliberately reburied by its Victorian excavator to protect it: so the past survives precisely…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bow Castle Broch
Scottish Borders
One of only three brochs surviving in the Scottish Borders, and the only one to have yielded a Roman cockerel-shaped brooch alongside 2nd-century a…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bradley hill fort
Cheshire
The smallest of Cheshire's seven Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hill forts, it turned a single bank, ditch and a stream's s…
- Near Frodsham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Braich-y-Dinas
Conwy
Braich-y-Dinas was a major Penmaenmawr hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, from about 800 BC until the R…
- Near Conwy
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bratton Castle
Wiltshire
Two ramparts enclosing 23 acres on a Salisbury Plain escarpment, later shadowed by a Georgian chalk horse cut into the same hillside.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Brean Down Fort
Somerset
A Victorian naval fortification eighteen metres above the sea, built to guard the Bristol Channel.
- Near Weston-super-Mare
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bredon Hill
Worcestershire
An Iron Age hillfort, a pair of stones said to cure illness, and Worcestershire's largest Roman coin hoard share a summit now capped by a Georgian…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Breidden Hill
Powys
A steep-sided hill of 367 metres near Welshpool, its footpaths giving views into England and Shropshire.
- Near Welshpool
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Brent Hill
Devon
Brent Hill preserves the hilltop location of an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) fort above South Brent in Devon.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Brent Knoll Camp
Somerset
A hilltop enclosure on Brent Knoll, visible above the Somerset Levels.
- Near Burnham-on-Sea
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Brewer's Castle
Somerset
A defended settlement on Hawkridge Ridge Wood, standing very close to a second fort of the same kind.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
British Camp
Herefordshire
Later reused as a Norman castle and then cut through by a boundary bank and ditch in 1287, this hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth rampa…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Ayre
Orkney Islands
The Ayre site is a broch, a tall circular tower of unmortared stone found only in Scotland, on Orkney Mainland.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Borwick
Orkney Islands
The Broch of Borwick is a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, a type of building found only in Scotland, whose remains illuminate changing com…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Burrian
Orkney Islands
The Broch of Burrian is a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, a type of building found only in Scotland, on the rocky shore of North Ronaldsay.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Clickimin
Shetland Islands
On a small promontory jutting into the Loch of Clickimin, three-quarters of a mile south-west of Lerwick on the road to Sumburgh, stands one of the…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Cullingsburgh
Shetland Islands
Very little survives above ground of the broch (a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, found only in Scotland) that once stood on a shoulder of…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of Culswick
Shetland Islands
A massive triangular lintel stone still spans the entrance of the Broch (a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, found only in Scotland) of Culs…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broch of West Burrafirth
Shetland Islands
The Broch of West Burrafirth stands on a low rocky islet known as the Holm of Hebrista, within West Burra Firth on the west side of Shetland Mainla…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broomfield Camp
Somerset
A trench cut through the bank in 1968 produced pottery of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: which is more than most of its nei…
- Near Broomfield
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Brown Clee Hill
Shropshire
The highest hill in Shropshire, thought to have taken more wartime aircraft than any other in Britain: and now carrying the radar that keeps them a…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Broxmouth
East Lothian
The most completely excavated hillfort (a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches) in Scotland, its cemetery preserves rar…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bryn Euryn
Conwy
A limestone-walled hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: above the Conwy coast, later reused as a wartime o…
- Near Rhos-on-Sea
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Buckland Rings
Hampshire
A triple-banked Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) enclosure standing just 27 metres above sea level, and rarer for it: this style…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burley Wood
Devon
A Devon hilltop with both an Iron Age hillfort, a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts from about 800 BC, and a later Norman motte-and-bailey…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burnham Beeches
Buckinghamshire
A rare single-rampart hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age surv…
- Near Burnham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burra Ness Broch
Shetland Islands
On the tip of the headland of Burra Ness, on the east coast of Yell in Shetland, the drystone wall of a round tower still rises over four metres on…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burrington Camp
Somerset
The camp looks down into Burrington Combe, where cave cemeteries record human presence far older than the fort.
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Burrington Combe
Somerset
A dry limestone gorge holding Britain's oldest dated cemetery, witch marks in a cave, and a rock named after a hymn that was probably written elsew…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burrough Hill
Leicestershire
A magnetometry survey found over 400 storage pits and roundhouse foundations packed inside a single set of ramparts: evidence that this was a worki…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burroughston Broch
Orkney Islands
One of Orkney’s best-preserved brochs, its intact guard chamber, wall gallery and internal well make the defensive engineering of a tower from abou…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burry Holms
Swansea
English records of the 1440s call it 'Saint Kenyth atte Holmes': the Welsh saint's name and the Norse word for an islet, side by side.
- Near Rhossili
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burton Fleming (archaeological site)
East Riding of Yorkshire
Two square-barrow cemeteries here held 64 Iron Age burials, each body folded into a crouched position facing north-south, a burial rite that marks…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burton Point, Cheshire
Cheshire
A single earthwork sealed a headland the River Dee once defended on three sides: until 18th-century engineering rerouted the river and left the for…
- Near Burton, Cheshire
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Bank
Staffordshire
A seventh-century king of Mercia is said to have lived here, at a place called Wulfherecester - and no evidence has been found that the fort was re…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Camp
Wiltshire
A multivallate Iron Age: roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: hillfort, a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, of some 9.2…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Ditches
Shropshire
One of the most complete hillforts in the Shropshire Hills: visible only because two decades of storms took the forestry off it.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Hill
Hampshire
A double ring of earthen ramparts raised in two distinct building phases, then reused centuries later as a royal war-camp during the fight for the…
- Near Andover
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Walls
Shropshire
A protected defended site on a sandstone ridge south-east of Weston-under-Redcastle.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bussock Camp
Berkshire
Its ramparts are lopsidedly built: doubled banks and ditches guard the south and east, while a single bank was thought sufficient for the gentler n…
- Near Chieveley
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Buzbury Rings
Dorset
Buzbury Rings is a multi-period Dorset enclosure where Neolithic origins: from the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain: Iron Age defences…
- Near Tarrant Keyneston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bwrdd Arthur
Isle of Anglesey
Bwrdd Arthur is an Anglesey hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground during the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arri…
- Near Llanddona
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Camp
Somerset
An Iron Age fort with Roman coins, a statue of Mars and a wartime searchlight battery: and a Camelot legend that probably belongs to a different Ca…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Castle, Devon
Devon
Cadbury Castle is a strategically placed hillfort, a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches, whose exceptional views link…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Castle, Somerset
Somerset
A defended hilltop at South Cadbury, ringed by banks and ditches on high ground.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Hill
Somerset
An Iron Age fort - roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest - refortified around AD 400 after Rome withdrew, and trading with Byzantium a century la…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadson Bury
Cornwall
A single bank and ditch ringing 2.5 hectares above the Lynher, with opposed entrances east and west and not one house platform visible inside it.
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Bach
Conwy
A small, little-investigated hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: above the Conwy valley whose double defences still hold the p…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Bran
Cornwall
The inner wall of Caer Bran was once a circular stone-lined rampart (a defensive embankment ringing the site) twelve feet thick, enclosing a space…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Caradoc
Shropshire
A hill above Church Stretton, named for Caradog and distinct from the fort near Bucknell.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn)
shropshire
Two Shropshire hillforts sixteen miles apart carry this name, and both are claimed as the site of Caratacus's last battle against Rome.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Drewyn
Denbighshire
A dry-stone rampart (a defensive embankment ringing the site) nearly three hectares in extent, still remembered as the muster point where Owain Gly…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Euni
Gwynedd
Caer Euni is a compact, expanded Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground from roughly 800 BC until the Roman c…
- Near Llandderfel
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer y Twr
isle-of-anglesey
An Iron Age hillfort on the summit of Holyhead Mountain whose ruined ramparts still stand three metres high, with the footings of a later tower: a…
- Near Holyhead
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caerau Hillfort
Cardiff
A ruined medieval church and an unrecorded castle mound sit inside the ramparts, three layers of settlement stacked on one Cardiff ridge.
- Near Cardiff
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caesar's Camp, Bracknell Forest
Berkshire
A mile-long rampart shaped like an oak leaf, built by hand on ground too poor to farm: one of the largest hillforts in southern England, sustained…
- Near Crowthorne
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caesar's Camp, Rushmoor and Waverley
Surrey
One of the largest multivallate hillforts in southern England, its Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) ramparts were later reused wh…
- Near Farnborough
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caisteal Grugaig
Highland
A drystone tower still rising over its own five-step internal stair and a triangular lintel massive enough to have never needed a keystone.
- Near Shiel Bridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cannington Camp
Somerset
A hilltop held through the Bronze Age, roughly 2500-800 BC, and the Iron Age, from about 800 BC until the Romans came - argued over as the site of…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Capler Camp
Herefordshire
Its Domesday-era name records it as a lookout post above the Wye: a purpose the double ramparts still make obvious a thousand years on.
- Near Fownhope
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Carl Wark
South Yorkshire
A rampart (an encircling bank built for defence) described as unlike anything else in Northern England, guarding a cliff-edge enclosure whose build…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Carn Liath (broch)
Highland
Excavated twice a century apart, its walls conceal a Bronze Age burial that predates the broch by centuries: the tower was built over an older grav…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Carrock Fell
Cumbria
A rare outcrop of gabbro in a range of crumbling slate, its summit crowned by an Iron Age hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement from the centurie…
- Near Keswick
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castallack Round
Cornwall
Castallack Round preserves the rampart (a defensive bank of earth or stone) of a Cornish enclosed settlement and the remains of a later courtyard h…
- Near Lamorna
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castell Caer Seion
Conwy
Castell Caer Seion is an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) Conwy hillfort (a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age) with a r…
- Near Conwy
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castell Cawr
Conwy
An Iron Age hillfort (a hilltop site enclosed by ramparts of earth) in woodland above Abergele, noted by antiquaries alongside the traces of a Roma…
- Near Conwy
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castell Henllys
Pembrokeshire
Four roundhouses and a granary reconstructed on their excavated foundations inside a defended enclosure of the pre-Roman centuries.
- Near Nevern
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castell Nadolig
Ceredigion
A farmer's spade here turned up the Penbryn Spoons, a pair of Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) bronze divination tools now held i…
- Near Aberystwyth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castercliff
Lancashire
Castercliff is a scheduled Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) multivallate hillfort, a settlement defended by multiple…
- Near Colne
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Casterley Camp
Wiltshire
A very large enclosure on the Wiltshire downs from the Iron Age, from about 800 BC until the Romans came, which may never have been defensive and w…
- Near Upavon
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major
Cornwall
Three concentric rings of bank and ditch around a summit that already held two burial mounds a thousand years before anyone thought to fortify it.
- Near St Columb Major
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Close
Devon
Castle Close is a modest but strategically placed Devon earthwork: a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry: whose li…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Crag
Cumbria
The summit fort was sliced in two by quarrying and now shares its rock outcrop with a First World War memorial: an ancient site reused as workshop,…
- Near Rosthwaite
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Ditches
Wiltshire
Three concentric ramparts survive as earthworks on the hill above south-east Tisbury.
- Near Tisbury
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Dore
Cornwall
One of Cornwall's most closely investigated Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillforts, later made famous by a Civil War retreat…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Dyke
Devon
Castle Dyke is a hilltop fort in south Devon dating from roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, a compact but strategically placed earthwork: a b…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Hill, Hampshire
Hampshire
A single bank and ditch on a New Forest ridge that gave rise to a dragon legend still remembered in a village pub name a mile away.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Knowe, Northumberland
Northumberland
Castle Knowe is a compact Iron Age hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground from the period before Rome arrived, in the Cheviots whose concen…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Naze
derbyshire
An Iron Age promontory fort that needed to defend one side only: the gritstone edge does the rest: and was found in 1957 to have been rebuilt again…
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Old Fort
West Midlands
A hill fort with a house standing inside it, and a second entrance that only survives in the notes of an antiquarian: an early collector-scholar of…
- Near Dudley
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Ring
Staffordshire
The highest point on Cannock Chase, held for five centuries and abandoned when Rome arrived: with a medieval hunting lodge inside the ring.
- Near Cannock Wood
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Rings, Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Castle Rings is an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground. It hide…
- Near Donhead St Mary
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castles Camp
Somerset
Roman coins have been turned up on a hilltop fortified in the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, and nobody has explained why.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castlesteads, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Castlesteads is a scheduled Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) promontory fort (a coastal spur defended by banks throw…
- Near Bury
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cefn Carnedd
Powys
A six-hectare hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: that grew from a much smaller one, and a candidate for the site of Caratacus…
- Near Caersws
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Chalbury Hillfort
Dorset
Chalbury Hillfort is a strategically placed settlement enclosure from the centuries before Rome arrived, with storage pits, hut platforms, burial m…
- Near Bincombe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Charterhouse Camp
Somerset
A single-rampart hillfort on Mendip beside a Roman town: and a candidate for the lost settlement of Iscalis.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cheddar Gorge
Somerset
A limestone gorge in the Mendips holding the show caves where Britain's oldest complete skeleton was found.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cherbury Camp
Oxfordshire
An Iron Age enclosure larger than Uffington Castle yet built on flat, marshy ground with no hill in sight: and the unlikely birthplace of the Pusey…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Chesters Hill Fort
East Lothian
A settlement of some twenty roundhouses survives inside its ramparts and ditches: Historic Environment Scotland rates it one of the best-preserved…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Chilworth Ring
Hampshire
A prehistoric hillfort survives only as the shape of a suburban street: its single rampart (the raised bank thrown up around a fortified enclosure)…
- Near Chilworth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Chiselbury
Wiltshire
An Iron Age ring fort still flanked by two mysterious cross dykes built to block the very ridge route it commands: with WWI regimental badges later…
- Near Fovant
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cholesbury Camp
Buckinghamshire
A double ring of beech-crowned earthworks still nearly a mile round, with the parish church and a Tudor manor sitting inside defences first thrown…
- Near Cholesbury
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Chûn Castle
Cornwall
A large Cornish hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest: beside…
- Near Pendeen
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clatchard Craig
Fife
Clatchard Craig was an important stronghold of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900, with evidence of el…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clatworthy Camp
Somerset
Scrub and tree growth put this site on the Heritage at Risk Register - the threat to the earthwork, a bank and ditch shaped from soil rather than b…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clearbury Ring
Wiltshire
A single bank-and-ditch settlement above the Avon valley holds a Stone Age hand axe far older than the earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped fro…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
An Iron Age hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) occupies the highest edge of the Cotswolds, sharing its escarpment with a Neol…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cleeve Toot
Somerset
A roughly oval defended hilltop above Goblin Combe, some 125 metres by 90.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clegyr Boia
Pembrokeshire
A rocky crown west of St Davids carrying traces of early farming and later settlement, a natural lookout over the peninsula.
- Near St Davids
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cley Hill
Wiltshire
A chalk down west of Warminster carries an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) fort, two burial mounds and a folklore of devils and…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Clovelly Dykes
Devon
Clovelly Dykes is a large Early Iron Age earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) on Devon’s coastal…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Codford Circle
Wiltshire
Too slight to defend anything, with no evidence of anyone ever living inside it. What it was for is unknown, and so is when it was built.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coldoch Broch
Stirling
Cleared out just before 1870. A plan was drawn, and the excavation report never appeared.
- Near Doune
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coney's Castle
Dorset
Coney’s Castle is a protected defended settlement on a narrow Dorset ridge, dating from roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest. Its ramparts, late…
- Near Morecombelake
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Conygar Hillfort
Somerset
A triangular fort with three feet of bank left on one side, half a mile from the M5.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cotley Castle
Devon
Cotley Castle is a large hill fort from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest, on the Haldon Hills ridge, set on high ground near Du…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cow Castle
Somerset
An isolated hilltop in Exmoor ringed by a single bank and ditch, west-south-west of Exford.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coxall Knoll
Shropshire
An Iron Age defended settlement on a 262-metre summit at the Shropshire and Herefordshire boundary.
- Near Bucknell
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Gwrtheyrn
Carmarthenshire
A hillfort whose ramparts still carry the name of Vortigern, the warlord blamed for inviting the Anglo-Saxons into Britain, burned here in legend b…
- Near Llandeilo
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Phadrig
Highland
Its stone rampart was fused to glass by fire in the 4th century, and tradition: never proven: casts it as the seat where a Pictish (of the Picts, t…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Rhiwarth
Powys
One of the highest hill forts in Wales, on a summit that also carries the remains of slate quarrying.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Ty-Isaf
Neath Port Talbot
Craig Ty-Isaf is a compact but well-defined scheduled hillfort, an Iron Age: the centuries before Rome arrived: settlement defended by banks and di…
- Near Baglan
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cranbrook Castle
Devon
Cranbrook Castle is an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hill fort on a high Devon hilltop overlooking the Teign valley and ne…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cranmore Castle
Devon
Cranmore Castle is a large enclosure above Tiverton, dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came, whose unusual siting raises important que…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Credenhill Camp
Herefordshire
One of the largest hillforts in the West Midlands, its ramparts sheltered a working timber settlement for over three centuries and later gave a Sax…
- Near Hereford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Creech Hill
Somerset
A Romano-Celtic temple on the highest ground at Lamyatt Beacon, in use from AD 250 to 375, and a hill fort at the other end of the same hill.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Croft Ambrey
Herefordshire
Its two gateways were rebuilt so often over six centuries that archaeologists counted twenty successive sets of gateposts: among the most heavily r…
- Near Yarpole
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Crosskirk Broch
Highland
A broch built inside an older promontory fort, fully excavated and then bulldozed into the sea in 1972: it survives only as a record, not a ruin.
- Near Reay
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Crug Hywel
Powys
An Iron Age fort on a flat-topped hill that gave Crickhowell its name: though the name may not have belonged to the hill first.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cunnilear Camp
Devon
Cunnilear Camp is a recorded hillfort above the River Yeo, a defended settlement on high ground dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Curdon Camp
Somerset
Quarrying and bulldozing took nearly all of it. Two and a half metres of bank survive on the south and west.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Danebury
Hampshire
Twenty seasons of excavation under Barry Cunliffe turned this single Hampshire hillfort, an Iron Age: the centuries before Rome arrived: settlement…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
Danes Graves
East Riding of Yorkshire
More than seventy barrows and 114 recorded skeletons make this one of the largest known Arras Culture cemeteries, including one of Yorkshire's rare…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Danish Camp
Essex
Danish Camp is a scheduled Middle Iron Age fortified settlement at Shoeburyness, whose surviving banks preserve domestic occupation and later coast…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Daw's Castle
Somerset
A sea-cliff enclosure west of Watchet, where earth banks still mark an ancient defensive position eighty metres above the Bristol Channel.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Deborah's Hole Camp
Swansea
An Iron Age fort on the cliff above the cave it is named for, with the Wales Coast Path running straight through it.
- Near Rhossili
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Denbury Hill
Devon
Denbury Hill is a prominent Devon hillfort, a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, with visible defences and burial mounds. Its…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Desborough Castle
Buckinghamshire
Three distinct phases of use lie stacked in one earthwork here: a prehistoric enclosure, a barrow reused as a Saxon assembly site, and a Norman rin…
- Near High Wycombe
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
The surviving western ditch is one of the strongest candidates for the stronghold where Julius Caesar defeated the British king Cassivellaunus in 5…
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dinas Dinorwig
Gwynedd
Dinas Dinorwig is Arfon’s largest and most heavily defended hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks), whose massive multi-phase ear…
- Near Llanrug
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dinas Powys hillfort
Vale of Glamorgan
A hillfort abandoned under Rome and reoccupied in the fifth century by a lord who employed a blacksmith and a jeweller: probably Irishmen looking f…
- Near Dinas Powys
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dinedor Camp
Herefordshire
Since 2016 the hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts: has belonged to the community whose village gave it its name, and a 1951 tre…
- Near Dinedor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dinies Camp
Somerset
An enclosure classed as an Iron Age hillfort and considered medieval: standing on the site of an earthwork, a bank and ditch dug and heaped from th…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dolebury Warren
Somerset
A hillfort of the Iron Age whose ramparts made a perfect rabbit warren: and whose name may mean the idol hill.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Doon Castle Broch
Dumfries and Galloway
On the south side of Ardwell Point, where the land juts into the North Channel on the Rhins of Galloway, the remains of Doon Castle broch (a tall c…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Doune of Relugas
Moray
Doune of Relugas is a long-occupied promontory hillfort, a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts, overlooking the Findhorn valley, where a tim…
- Near Dunphail
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dowsborough
Somerset
An Iron Age fort above the Bristol Channel that a corrupted place-name suggests was still being used as a lookout in Alfred's time.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dragon Hill, Uffington
Oxfordshire
A flat-topped chalk hillock beneath the Uffington White Horse where a bare, grassless scar is said to mark the spot a dragon died.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Drakelow Hillfort
Worcestershire
One of a scatter of small Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) promontory forts along the Kinver Edge ridge, defended by more than on…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dudsbury Camp
Dorset
Dudsbury Camp is a three-hectare defended settlement on the River Stour, dating from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest. It retai…
- Near West Parley
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumglow
Perth and Kinross
A burial cairn - a mound of stones raised over a grave - sits inside the ramparts of the fort on this summit.
- Near Dunfermline
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumpdon Hill
Devon
Dumpdon Hill is one of Devon’s largest and clearest Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) earthworks, where a prominent s…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun an Sticir
Outer Hebrides
Three stone causeways lace across Loch an Sticir on North Uist, carrying a single line of dry ground from the B893 road to a broch (a tall circular…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Beag
Highland
A countess spent six years hand-sifting its spoil heaps, and coins running from Henry II to George III show this Skye tower stayed in use long afte…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Bharabhat, Great Bernera
Outer Hebrides
A thirty-metre stone causeway crosses the water of Loch Bharabhat to reach the islet on which Dun Bharabhat stands, its walls rising above the loch…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Borrafiach
Highland
A drystone tower on Skye's Waternish coast still stands over two and a half metres high, with its internal gallery wall exposed to view along the e…
- Near Halistra
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Carloway
Outer Hebrides
On the south side of Dun Carloway the original wall still stands to 9.2 metres, and on the east side sections of the old wall reach close to nine m…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Cruinn
Highland
A smaller broch or dun was built inside the ruins of an earlier hillfort on the same rocky knoll: two separate strongholds, one after the other, on…
- Near Dunvegan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Dornaigil
Highland
Above its blocked doorway, Dun Dornaigil's wall still climbs to nearly seven metres: among the tallest surviving drystone tower stonework anywhere…
- Near Altnaharra
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dùn Dubh
Argyll and Bute
The name Dùn Dubh renders from Scottish Gaelic as "the black dun", and the early 20th-century antiquary Erskine Beveridge counted it among the four…
- Near Arinagour
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dùn Èistean
Outer Hebrides
On an inter-tidal sea stack off the north-east coast of the Isle of Lewis, near the village of Knockaird (Cnoc Àrd) in the district of Ness (Nis),…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Evan
Highland
A double ring of vitrified (burnt so fiercely that the stone melted and set again) and rebuilt walls crowns a rock between two river valleys, with…
- Near Cawdor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Fiadhairt
Highland
A double-walled stone tower dating the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest stands on a loch-side knoll near Dunvegan, excavated in 189…
- Near Dunvegan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Grugaig
Highland
A rare surviving 'semi-broch': the transitional D-shaped form that shows how the great circular broch towers of the Highlands may have evolved.
- Near Glenelg
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Hallin
Highland
Its walls still rise close to four metres, with an intact mural gallery and lintel in place: one of Skye's better-preserved brochs, and one never d…
- Near Hallin
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dùn Meadhonach
Argyll and Bute
Its Gaelic name, Middle Fort, hints at a lost network of strongholds along this stretch of Colonsay: of which this is now the only one still named.
- Near Lower Kilchattan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Mor Vaul
Argyll and Bute
A drystone tower with an internal diameter of 9.2 metres and walls roughly 4.5 metres thick stands on a rocky knoll on the northern coast of Tiree,…
- Near Balemartine
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dùn Morbhaidh
Argyll and Bute
Two potsherds incised with the figures of deer, lifted from Dùn Morbhaidh and now kept in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, are among…
- Near Gallanach
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Ringill
Highland
A stone roundhouse dating from the centuries before Rome arrived that Clan MacKinnon later refitted as its own stronghold, so the ruin carries two…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Skudiburgh
Highland
A vitrified (burnt so fiercely that the stone melted and set again) Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort with a later dun built…
- Near Uig
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Telve
Highland
Its drystone wall still rises over ten metres without a scrap of mortar, making Dun Telve one of the tallest surviving brochs anywhere in Scotland.
- Near Inverness
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Troddan
Highland
Its stairway still climbs to a first-floor landing inside a wall four and a half metres thick: one of Scotland's most intact broch (a tall circular…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Vulan
Outer Hebrides
On the southern edge of a promontory in South Uist stand the oval walls of Dun Vulan, known in Scottish Gaelic as Dùn Mhùlan or Dùn Mhaoilinn. The…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dundon Hill Hillfort
Somerset
A hill that looks like a mountain because everything around it is flat: with a barrow, a burial mound of heaped earth, raised in the Bronze Age, ro…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dundurn, Scotland
Perth and Kinross
The Annals of Ulster record a siege here in 683 and the death of a king in 889 - a fort of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland f…
- Near St Fillans
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunearn
Highland
Two ramparts set barely six metres apart, likely braced by internal timbers, and traces of vitrification suggesting the fort was deliberately burne…
- Near Forres
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunnideer Castle
Aberdeenshire
Its walls were quarried from a vitrified hillfort: an enclosure of the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome from about 800 BC, whose ramparts were b…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunsinane Hill
Perth and Kinross
Nineteenth-century antiquarians came here because of Macbeth and dug the hill fort apart. Little of value was learned.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunwood Camp
Hampshire
Its single earthen rampart shows no trace of an accompanying ditch and never closes into a finished circuit: a Hampshire hillfort, an Iron Age: the…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
East Myne
Somerset
Recorded as a hill fort of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, and considered to be a deserted post-medieval farmstead, from the…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ebsbury
Wiltshire
A hillside enclosure that yielded two buried Roman coin hoards, a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) mace-head and six s…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eddisbury hill fort
Cheshire
The largest and most elaborately defended of Cheshire's seven hill forts, rebuilt, deliberately slighted by Rome, then reoccupied by settlers centu…
- Near Chester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Edinburgh Castle
City of Edinburgh
One of Scotland's most important strongholds and a seat of royal power for centuries, Edinburgh Castle claims to be the most besieged place in Grea…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eildon Hill
Scottish Borders
Nearly 300 house platforms cut into a volcanic hilltop make this one of the largest hillforts known in Scotland: later crowned by a Roman signal to…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Elworthy Barrows
Somerset
An unfinished defended settlement of the pre-Roman centuries, despite a name suggesting burial mounds.
- Near Wiveliscombe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eston Nab
North Yorkshire
A sandstone summit carrying three layers of human use at once: Bronze Age burial, an Iron Age hillfort, and a beacon tower: bought back into commun…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ffridd Faldwyn, Montgomery
Powys
One of the largest hillforts in Wales, excavated to modern standards in the 1930s: and yielding a single sherd of pottery of the Iron Age, roughly…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Flower's Barrow
Dorset
The coastal defended settlement dates from the centuries before Rome arrived, with visible ramparts and hut circles. More than half of the original…
- Near Tyneham
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Foel Drygarn
Pembrokeshire
Two hundred and twenty-seven hut platforms spread beneath three summit cairns, a rare record of settlement under a defended hilltop.
- Near Crymych
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Foel Fenlli
Denbighshire
Legend remembers its summit as a tyrant king's stronghold destroyed by fire from heaven, but excavation shows a real community occupying the rampar…
- Near Denbigh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Fosbury Camp
Wiltshire
Defended on three sides by the slope alone. To the west the ground keeps rising, towards the summit the fort does not occupy.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Frankenbury Camp
Hampshire
A lone Durotrigian silver coin turned up in a nearby garden, hinting at trade contacts reaching west into Dorset from this quiet Avon-side promontory.
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gaer hillfort, Trellech
Monmouthshire
Gaer hillfort, a defended Iron Age: the centuries before Rome arrived: settlement on high ground, is a registered Celtic monument near Trellech, re…
- Near Trellech
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Garn Boduan
Gwynedd
Garn Boduan is a major Llŷn Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: where evidence for more than 170 roundhouses and perh…
- Near Nefyn
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gatcombe, Somerset
Somerset
A house at Ashton Watering in the parish of Long Ashton, protected by law for its architecture.
- Near Long Ashton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Giant's Castle, Isles of Scilly
Cornwall
Giant's Castle uses sea cliffs and a triple line of earthworks to defend a small Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) promontory on S…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Glastonbury Lake Village
Somerset
Timber and a thousand tonnes of imported clay, laid on a swamp to make solid ground for up to 200 people. The wood is still down there, reburied to…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gog Magog Hills
Cambridgeshire
A hillfort with Bronze Age origins borrowed its name from a lost giant: a chalk hill figure recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries, then never see…
- Near Great Shelford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Goosehill Camp
West Sussex
An Iron Age earthwork of two concentric circuits in Kingley Vale, dug three times in sixty years: a record of how archaeological method changed.
- Near Stoughton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gorley Hill
Hampshire
A promontory fort (a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck) on a gravel spur above the Avon valley, all but erased in the 1950s and…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grabbist Hillfort
Somerset
An enclosure that may not be a hillfort, an Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, settlement defended by banks and ditches on high gro…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Greenway Camp
Devon
Greenway Camp is a recorded Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks across its neck: above the Dart Estuary, showing how elevate…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grennan Hill
Dumfries and Galloway
Grennan Hill rises outside the village of Penpont in Dumfries and Galloway, and it carries on its summit the remains of an Iron Age (from about 800…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grimsbury Castle
Berkshire
A hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) built around a spring said to have never run dry, its ramparts so imposing that Saxon set…
- Near Hampstead Norreys
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grovely Castle
Wiltshire
Five human skeletons were found inside its banks, and a circular enclosure shows within it on aerial photographs.
- Near Little Langford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gurnard's Head
Cornwall
Gurnard's Head is a geologically ancient Penwith headland whose Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) fort, medieval chapel, fishing e…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Halliggye Fogou
Cornwall
Halliggye Fogou is Cornwall's largest and best-preserved subterranean Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) passage complex, later…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Halwell Camp
Devon
Halwell Camp marks an Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: on a pass above the Devon village of Halwell, p…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ham Hill Hillfort
Somerset
A defended hilltop occupied across several early periods and again in Roman and medieval times.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hamble Common
Hampshire
A single stretch of heathland carries a defensive ditch from the Iron Age, a Tudor coastal castle now eaten by the sea, and gun platforms from two…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hambledon Hill
Dorset
Hambledon Hill is a major Dorset landscape with causewayed enclosures and long burial mounds from the late Stone Age, later overlaid by an extensiv…
- Near Child Okeford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hardwell Castle
Oxfordshire
A pair of concentric banks and ditches folded into a hidden curve of the scarp rather than set to command it, seemingly built to be missed, not seen.
- Near Uffington
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hascombe Hill
Surrey
A single 24-metre entrance passage, cut through reinforced ramparts and ditches, shows how deliberately this Surrey hillfort (a defended enclosure…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hawkesdown Hill
Devon
Hawkesdown Hill is a scheduled Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: above the Axe Estuary, whose surviving…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Helsby hill fort
Cheshire
Helsby’s defended hilltop, occupied in the centuries before Rome arrived, uses sheer sandstone cliffs and double ramparts to command the Cheshire P…
- Near Helsby
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hembury Castle, Buckfast
Devon
Hembury Castle combines an Iron Age hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts: with a later medieval castle mound on a Dartmoor-edge p…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hembury Castle, Tythecott
Devon
Hembury Castle near Tythecott preserves an Iron Age hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: on elevated Devon…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hen Gaer
Ceredigion
Hen Gaer’s small fortified enclosure uses a massive defensive bank and rock-cut ditch to command the narrow valley where the Afon Clarach begins.
- Near Bow Street
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Highbury Hill, Clutton
Somerset
Three hectares of earthwork - a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry - at the end of a narrow ridge, under woodland…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Highdown Hill
West Sussex
A Late Bronze Age enclosure replaced by a fort of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: and the hill where a miller built his own…
- Near Worthing
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hollingbury Castle
East Sussex
Hollingbury preserves a substantial defended settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest on Brighton’s edge, where later exc…
- Near Brighton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Holmbury Hill
Surrey
Its double ramparts were cut not just to defend the summit but to announce control over the trade routes through the Weald below.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Holne Chase Castle
Devon
Holne Chase Castle preserves a defended hilltop position above the River Dart on the northern slopes of Holne Chase in Devon.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Horse Pool Camp
Somerset
An oval hillfort twice as long as it is wide, on the Devon border: and almost nothing else is recorded about it.
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Humbleton Hill
Northumberland
Humbleton Hill combines a long settlement sequence from before written records with the site of the 1402 Battle of Homildon Hill, layering early, l…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hunsbury Hill
Northamptonshire
Its inner ramparts were burned so fiercely that timber-laced stone fused together: vitrification almost never found on an English hillfort (a defen…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hunter's Tor, Lustleigh Cleave
Devon
Hunter’s Tor combines a granite Dartmoor viewpoint with an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hillfort (a hilltop enclosure rin…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Huntsham Castle
Devon
Huntsham Castle is a well-defined hillfort, a hilltop enclosure from the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived, above the Lowman tributary va…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Inshlampie Broch
Highland
A drystone tower mound perched between two ravines above the river Naver, ringed by cairns, hut circles and settlement traces that together form on…
- Near Bettyhill
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ivinghoe Beacon
Buckinghamshire
A chalk summit used as a beacon and modern film set, crossed by a route first walked between roughly 2500 and 800 BC.
- Near Ivinghoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ivinghoe Hills
Buckinghamshire
An Iron Age hillfort (an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground) and a prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived i…
- Near Ivinghoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ivington Camp
Herefordshire
A defended Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hilltop guarding the approach to Leominster from the south, its earthwork (a mound or…
- Near Brierley
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kelly Rounds
Cornwall
Kelly Rounds is a large Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, from the centuries before Rome arri…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kelsborrow Castle
Cheshire
One of only seven known hillforts in Cheshire, its single bank and ditch mark it as a short-lived, one-phase Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Rom…
- Near Kelsall
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kelsey Head
Cornwall
Ramparts thrown across the neck of a headland that flint flakes show people had already been using for thousands of years before anyone thought to…
- Near Newquay
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kentisbury Down
Devon
Kentisbury Down is a recorded Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) round near Blackmore Gate, marking prehistoric (before any written…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kenwalch's Castle
Somerset
An Iron Age fort possibly turned Roman fortress, on the county line, with a modern road running through what were probably its gates.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kimsbury hill fort
Gloucestershire
Its Old English name preserves the memory of a person, Cynemær, otherwise lost to record: a fortress whose ramparts still outline the hilltop despi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
King John's Hill
Hampshire
A small Iron Age hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement from the centuries before Rome arrived, quarried on one side yet still carrying two crisp…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
King's Castle, Wells
Somerset
Possibly the settlement that Wells grew out of: an enclosed hilltop site of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, of two or three…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
King's Castle, Wiveliscombe
Somerset
Arrowheads from the Neolithic, the first farming age, roughly 4000-2500 BC, and a hoard of 1,139 coins have come off this hilltop.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kings Weston Hill
Bristol
At its eastern tip survives a scheduled Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort (an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and d…
- Near Lawrence Weston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kingsdown Camp
Somerset
A drystone wall possibly four metres high and two and a half thick, around an enclosure of only a third of an acre.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kinver Edge Hillfort
Staffordshire
A fort with a massive rampart on two sides and nothing built on the other two: because the escarpment already did the job.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Knoll Camp
Hampshire
A single quiet ditch here is shadowed only fifty metres away by a separate cross-ridge dyke, with the ancient boundary of Grim's Ditch running thro…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Knook Castle
Wiltshire
Interpreters still disagree on whether this was an Iron Age hillfort, a Roman summer camp, or a cattle enclosure: and the surrounding downs hide tw…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Knowle Hill Castle
Devon
Knowle Hill Castle is a compact example of an Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ladle Hill
Hampshire
Begun in the Iron Age and abandoned mid-build, its bank and ditch still show the uneven work of several separate labour gangs: a rare freeze-frame…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lambert's Castle
Devon
Lambert’s Castle unites a hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement from the Iron Age, the period before the Roman conquest, with a rare protected mo…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Langdale Broch
Highland
The rock knoll the tower crowns may itself be an older monument: quite possibly the buried remains of a chambered burial mound built around a stone…
- Near Altnaharra
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Largin Castle
Cornwall
A compact Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Leckie Broch
Stirling
An Iron Age broch: a drystone tower unique to Iron Age Scotland: that rhododendrons closed off entirely until they were cleared in 2020.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lescudjack Hill Fort
Cornwall
Lescudjack Hill Fort preserves a three-acre Iron Age enclosure: dating from roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: within Penzance, where a survi…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lesingey Round
Cornwall
Lesingey Round is a scheduled Cornish ringfort whose substantial bank and ditch preserve a late Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conque…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Liddington Castle
Wiltshire
Excavation dated first occupation to the 7th century BC, making this one of the earliest hillforts built anywhere in Britain.
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Little Woodbury
Wiltshire
A ring of postholes here rewrote how archaeologists understood Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) life, showing people…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lle'r Gaer
Rhondda Cynon Taf
A hillfort above Tonyrefail ringed by a single rampart, a bank of earth and stone raised for defence, one of four in the county borough and one of…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Llwyn Bryn-Dinas
Powys
A hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: with a bronze and iron smithy built into the back of its own rampar…
- Near Llangedwyn
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Llwynda-Ddu Camp
Cardiff
A double-ringed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) stronghold above Pentyrch, its earthworks still legible on the ground despite ce…
- Near Pentyrch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Loch of Tankerness
Orkney Islands
A shallow loch whose shrinking water exposed a Bronze Age house, while its shores bring together Iron Age, prehistoric and modern water-supply arch…
- Near Kirkwall
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Long Wood Enclosure
Somerset
A possible defended settlement of the pre-Roman centuries, three and a half kilometres south-west of Dunster.
- Near Dunster
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Loughton Camp
Essex
Loughton Camp is a scheduled Iron Age hillfort: a hilltop site enclosed by ramparts of earth, dating from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Rom…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maen Castle
Cornwall
Maen Castle is a coastal Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck, the centuries before Rome arrived, from…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maes Knoll
Somerset
An Iron Age defended settlement on the Dundry Down ridge south of Bristol, known also as Maes Tump.
- Near Norton Malreward
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maesbury Castle
Somerset
A hillfort whose name is half Welsh and half English: recorded in 705 as the boundary fort, on the frontier it describes.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Bower hillfort
Bedfordshire
A 1913 dig found a pit packed with the disarticulated bones of some fifty people, sealed inside an entrance cut through a rampart, a defensive emba…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, Cheshire
Cheshire
One of only seven Iron Age hillforts in Cheshire, and the outlier of the group: its double bank was judged unusually strong defence for so small a…
- Near Chester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, Durham
County Durham
An Iron Age promontory fort (a headland cut off by ramparts to make a defensible enclosure) east of Durham whose steep slopes and surviving earthwo…
- Near Durham
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
Possibly one of only two banjo enclosures in northern England, entered along a rare funnelled avenue whose original purpose still divides archaeolo…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Meare Lake Village
Somerset
A settlement at Meare on the Somerset Levels, occupied from about 300 BC to AD 100.
- Near Meare
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Membury Camp
Wiltshire
A single ring bank hides two collisions of history at once: an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) stronghold whose eas…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Membury Castle
Devon
Membury Castle is a hillfort, a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground during the Iron Age, the centuries before the Roman conques…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Midhowe Broch
Orkney Islands
An exceptionally well-preserved broch where a spring-fed tank, roasting hearth and converted workshop spaces make everyday life in an Iron Age coas…
- Near Rousay
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Midsummer Hill
Herefordshire
Unusually, its ramparts enclose two separate summits and the valley between them, encircling a community of around 1,500 people who lived here unti…
- Near Hollybush
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Milber Down
Devon
Milber Down is a hillfort, a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches during the Iron Age, the centuries before the Roman c…
- Near Milber, Newton Abbot
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Milkieston Rings
Scottish Borders
A small hillfort of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: with up to si…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mither Tap hillfort
Aberdeenshire
Excavation found an intact crucible and iron slag inside the ramparts: proof this granite summit was a working metalworking centre, not just a look…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel Arthur
Flintshire
Its double rampart (a defensive bank of earth or stone) on the one gentle approach, and a single bank everywhere the slope already did the work, sh…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel Hiraddug
Denbighshire
An Iron Age hillfort crowns a limestone ridge above Dyserth, its northern flank sheared away by quarrying: a fort half-consumed by the very stone i…
- Near Denbigh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel y Gaer, Bodfari
Denbighshire
The smallest of the six Clwydian Range hillforts, sited lowest of the chain yet at the strategic confluence of the Wheeler and Clwyd rivers where O…
- Near Denbigh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel y Gaer, Llanbedr
Denbighshire
One of six linked hillforts strung along the Clwydian Range, yet built lower and off the main ridge: a deliberate break from the chain's usual patt…
- Near Denbigh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel y Gaer, Llantysilio
Denbighshire
Excavation here found two roundhouses of different periods still preserved beneath the turf, proof that this hilltop was lived on, not just fortified.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel y Gaer, Rhosesmor
Flintshire
A timber long house sunk beneath the ramparts pushed activity on this summit back a thousand years before any defences existed, long before the for…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mounsey Castle
Somerset
A triangular bank and ditch of the pre-Roman centuries, north-west of Dulverton.
- Near Dulverton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mount Caburn
East Sussex
Mount Caburn is a repeatedly excavated enclosure above Lewes, dating from the centuries before Rome arrived, where structured deposits challenge th…
- Near Lewes
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mowsbury Hill
Bedfordshire
A hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: was later refounded as a moated medieval manor. Its earthworks are…
- Near Bedford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Musbury Castle
Devon
Musbury Castle is a recorded hillfort, a hilltop site enclosed by ramparts of earth from the Iron Age, the centuries before the Roman conquest, abo…
- Near Musbury
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mynydd Carningli
Pembrokeshire
A 347-metre mountain in the Preselis above Newport, its summit carrying remains from before the written record.
- Near Newport
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mynydd Illtud
Powys
A plateau carrying an Iron Age fort, a Roman road, Georgian rabbit warrens: and peat holding ten thousand years of climate history.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
New Ditch
Somerset
An earthwork that might be Iron Age defence or a medieval park boundary: and the evidence supports both readings equally.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Nordy Bank
Shropshire
A single bank rings ground on Brown Clee Hill near Clee St Margaret, enclosing a settlement defended between about 800 BC and the Roman conquest. I…
- Near Ludlow
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norsebury Ring
Hampshire
Its name sounds Norse but has nothing to do with Vikings, and its buried inner enclosure may echo the shrine once dug up at nearby Danebury.
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Northshield Rings
Scottish Borders
A hillfort whose outer defences are stronger than its inner ones: and an eight-metre gap that shows which were built first.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norton Camp
Somerset
A defended hilltop at Norton Fitzwarren near Taunton, raised in the age of the first metalworkers.
- Near Norton Fitzwarren
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oakmere hill fort
Cheshire
One of only seven Iron Age hill forts in Cheshire, and the only one built low beside water rather than on a hilltop: its ramparts once met the shor…
- Near Oakmere
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Old Oswestry
Shropshire
Old Oswestry is one of Britain’s best-preserved Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hillforts, where four defensive phases and later…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Old Winchester Hill
Hampshire
A hillfort (a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches) and older Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first s…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oldberry Castle
Somerset
It watches the ancient crossing of the River Barle, half a mile from Dulverton.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oldbury Camp
Kent
Oldbury Camp is south-eastern England’s largest Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hillfort, a 50-hectare Weald-route stronghol…
- Near Ightham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oram's Arbour
Hampshire
An Iron Age oppidum whose buried perimeter still underlies a Winchester park: and whose eastern edge the Roman town wall of Venta Belgarum was late…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ousdale Broch
Highland
One of the best-preserved brochs on the Caithness coast, with its entrance passage still roofed by its original stone lintels after more than two t…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Padderbury Top
Cornwall
Padderbury Top is a compact Cornish defended settlement whose surviving rampart, a defensive bank of earth or stone, and aerial traces preserve a l…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Parciau hill fort
Isle of Anglesey
Parciau is a cliff-edged Anglesey hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement: where a dense settlement of hut circles and late Roman finds suggest ren…
- Near Llaneugrad
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pen y Gaer
Conwy
A Conwy Valley hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest:…
- Near Conwy
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pen-y-crug
Powys
An Iron Age fort on a flat summit above Brecon, one of several strung along the Usk Valley, with a Victorian brickworks on its flank.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pentre Camp
Powys
A third of a hectare defended by five concentric ramparts: and a spring at the foot of the slope that probably explains why.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Penycloddiau
Flintshire
At 26 hectares its ramparts enclose one of the largest hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) interiors in Wales, and a 2017 dig p…
- Near Denbigh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Perborough Castle
Berkshire
Excavations found only a handful of storage pits inside its bank: evidence this was a lightly held fort, perhaps garrisoned only for a season at a…
- Near Hampstead Norreys
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Iron Age
Perran Round
Cornwall
Perran Round is Cornwall’s best-preserved plen-an-gwary, an earthwork arena: a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building: with uncertai…
- Near Goonhavern
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pexton Moor
North Yorkshire
A gamekeeper out rabbiting turned up corroded iron that proved to be a chariot dating from the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC, bu…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pitstone & Ivinghoe F.C.
Buckinghamshire
A village club that rebuilt itself twice from a folded predecessor, working its way from parish leagues to county cup glory without ever losing its…
- Near Pitstone
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pitstone Windmill
Buckinghamshire
A date carved into its timber frame makes this the oldest precisely dated windmill in the British Isles, and tree-ring science has since shown its…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Plainsfield Camp
Somerset
An earthwork overlooked by its own hill by fifty metres: which is why it is probably a stock enclosure rather than a fort.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pocklington Iron Age burial ground
East Riding of Yorkshire
A warrior here was buried lying on his own shield, Britain's first known shield burial, and a nearby grave held the country's only chariot buried c…
- Near Beverley
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Portfield Hillfort
Lancashire
Portfield Hillfort is a rare north-west English enclosure later enlarged with additional banks, with excavations revealing use from the late Stone…
- Near Whalley
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Portingbury Hills
Essex
Portingbury Hills is an enigmatic Hatfield Forest monument where evidence from before the Roman conquest, later alteration and contested astronomic…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Poston Camp
Herefordshire
Herefordshire's hills hold dozens of Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) strongholds, and Poston Camp's quiet earthworks near Vowchu…
- Near Vowchurch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Prestonbury Castle
Devon
Prestonbury Castle is an Iron Age Dartmoor-edge hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, dating from from aro…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Prideaux Castle
Cornwall
Prideaux Castle is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort: an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks, from from around 800 BC up to the Roman c…
- Near Luxulyan
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Quarley Hill
Hampshire
One ridge, three settlements: a farming landscape dating roughly 2500–800 BC, a later fort raised over an older palisade, then a Roman coda of coin…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Rainsborough Camp
Northamptonshire
Rainsborough Camp preserves an Iron Age: the centuries before Rome arrived: hillfort, a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts, whose defences…
- Some walking
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Settlement · Iron Age
Ringmoor
Dorset
Ringmoor is a well-preserved Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) and Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410) farmin…
- Near Okeford Fitzpaine
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ringsbury Camp
Wiltshire
One historian has argued this modest Wiltshire earthwork is the true site of the Battle of Mount Badon, the battle that supposedly halted the Saxon…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Road Castle
Somerset
An almost square enclosure with rounded corners, seven-tenths of an acre, two miles west of Winsford.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Roborough Castle
Devon
Roborough Castle preserves a high Iron Age enclosure or hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, dating from roughly 80…
- Near Exeter
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Roddenbury Hillfort
Somerset
A defended hilltop in Selwood, protected by law and repaired after damage from off-road biking.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Rodhuish Common
Somerset
An Iron Age hill fort - roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest - with a second, smaller oval enclosure inside it, where most sites of this class h…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Roulston Scar
north-yorkshire
The Scots fought their way up this hillside in October 1322 and took the Earl of Richmond prisoner; Edward II fled Rievaulx so fast he left the Gre…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Roundton Hill
Powys
A volcanic hill too steep to plough, which is why its Iron Age fort: of the centuries from about 800 BC until the Romans came: its mountain pansies…
- Near Church Stoke
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Roundway Down and Covert
Wiltshire
A single chalk escarpment above Devizes carries a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) settlement, an Iron Age (the centuries…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Rubers Law
Scottish Borders
Three separate strongholds - an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hillfort, a Roman signal station and an Early Medie…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ruborough Camp
Somerset
A defended site on the Quantock Hills near Broomfield, on an easterly spur of the ridge.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Scholes Coppice
South Yorkshire
A double bank and ditch enclose a wooded hilltop above Rotherham with no obvious way in: an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Scratchbury Camp
Wiltshire
A defended settlement on high ground, raised around 100 BC, encloses a smaller, far older bank-and-ditch enclosure that three separate excavation t…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Scutchamer Knob
Oxfordshire
A round barrow: a prehistoric burial mound of earth: whose name records a king's killing, a shire's assembly point, and a Viking army's superstitio…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Segsbury Camp
Oxfordshire
A Victorian excavation into the rampart turned up a shield boss and urn fragments beside human bone: a burial that may have been slipped into the e…
- Near Letcombe Regis
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Iron Age
Shipton Hill Settlement
Dorset
Shipton Hill Settlement is a rare small Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) defended community, whose natural slopes, banks and dome…
- Near Shipton Gorge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Sidbury Castle
Devon
Sidbury Castle is a substantial Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: whose large summit setting…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Sidbury Hill
Wiltshire
A far older settlement was found sealed beneath the bank in the 1950s. Access is difficult: the ground carries tank tracks and occasional artillery…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Skitten Broch
Highland
A broch excavated twice within four decades of Highland archaeology before being levelled entirely for a wartime runway: its erasure is now the cle…
- Near Killimster
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Slapton Castle
Devon
Slapton Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks across its neck: whose low but strategic position overlooks Slapton…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Slate Hill Settlement
Northumberland
Four concentric ramparts curve round the north and west of the enclosure; quarrying has taken the east side down to one.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Slwch Tump
Powys
A defended hilltop close to Brecon, also known as Slwch Camp.
- Near Brecon
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Small Down Knoll
Somerset
Fourteen round barrows run in a single line along the crest of the hill, ringed by the banks and ditches of an enclosure raised in the Bronze Age,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Smythapark
Devon
Smythapark is an Iron Age promontory hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: near Bratton Fleming, part of a Devon landscape notab…
- Near Bratton Fleming
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Snabrough broch
Shetland Islands
Snabrough Broch sits on a short, low promontory on the shore of Snabrough Loch, on the island of Unst in Shetland, its ruined wall now measuring ar…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Solsbury Hill
Somerset
A flat-topped hill above Batheaston, with the remains of an ancient defended settlement.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
South Weald Camp
Essex
South Weald Camp is a rare east-of-England late Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement from the centuries before Rome arrived: whose alte…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
St Catherine's Hill, Hampshire
Hampshire
A single chalk hilltop carries an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort, a lost medieval chapel, a 17th-century turf maze, an…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Stanborough
Devon
Stanborough is an Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) promontory hillfort (a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks an…
- Near Halwell
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Stantonbury Camp
Somerset
The fort sits on the line of the Wansdyke, and the iron tools found here are farming implements rather than weapons.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
North Yorkshire
Nine kilometres of ditch and rampart enclose some 300 hectares: one of the largest fortified sites in Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Stockland Castle
Devon
Stockland Castle preserves two distinct Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hillforts on one Devon hillside, showing how prehist…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Stokeleigh Camp
Somerset
One of three forts of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, ringing the Avon Gorge: with an innermost rampart, an encircling bank…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Stonea Camp
Cambridgeshire
Barely two metres above the surrounding marsh, this bank of gravel was still high enough and dry enough to be worth fortifying, fighting over, and…
- Near Stonea
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Sutton Walls Hill Fort
Herefordshire
Excavated skeletons here bear arrow wounds and decapitation cuts from a 1st-century Roman assault: rare direct physical evidence of an Iron Age (fr…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Sweetworthy
Somerset
Two Iron Age enclosures on one slope, with a deserted medieval settlement on the same ground - and the ditch of one now serves as a trackway.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tap o' Noth
Aberdeenshire
Drone and lidar surveys count as many as 800 huts inside its outer rampart: evidence, researchers say, for the largest known settlement in early-me…
- Near Rhynie
- 50 min walk from car park
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Taps Combe Camp
Somerset
A hill fort shaped like a letter D, fifty metres across, also recorded as Chelvey Batch Settlement.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tedbury Camp
Somerset
A hoard of Constantine Junior coins was found here in 1691, on a promontory already fortified in the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conqu…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
The Bulwarks, Porthkerry
Vale of Glamorgan
The south side is now cliff edge. There was probably a line of defences along it once, and the sea has taken them.
- Near Rhoose
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
The Frith
Hampshire
A modest single-banked stronghold standing guard over the approach to Calleva Atrebatum, one of Roman Britain's great towns, rather than a place of…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
The Larches, Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire
An Iron Age hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) near Trellech, recorded as a protected monument in a Welsh landscape where hun…
- Near Trellech
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
The Rumps
Cornwall
The Rumps combines a well-excavated Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) promontory fort (a headland cut off by ramparts to make…
- Near Wadebridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
The Trundle
West Sussex
An Iron Age enclosure on St Roche Hill, raised over a much earlier one, four miles north of Chichester.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
The Wrekin
Shropshire
An Iron Age tribal capital stormed and burnt by the Romans in AD 47: and a hill so familiar that its name became the local phrase for the long way…
- Near Telford
- Rough ground
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Carved stone · Iron Age
Three Holes Cross
Cornwall
Three Holes Cross is a scheduled medieval wayside cross whose unusual pierced wheelhead gives its name to a long-standing road junction east of Wad…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
Thundersbarrow Hill
West Sussex
Three occupations on one chalk ridge, separated by more than a thousand years each way: a burial mound, a fort, and a farming village.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tidbury Ring
Hampshire
Beneath ploughed-out defensive banks, two Roman buildings were raised inside this fort centuries after the Britons who first enclosed the hill were…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tirefour Castle
Argyll and Bute
A drystone broch: a round, hollow-walled tower distinctive to Scotland's Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived: survives to a maximum height…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Toothill Fort
Hampshire
A single defensive bank and ditch still ring the spur's tip, and a stand of planted redwoods now makes the old lookout visible for miles around.
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torberry Hill
West Sussex
A hilltop enclosure raised in the centuries before Rome arrived, spelled variously Tarberry and Torbery.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torr a'Chaisteal
North Ayrshire
Torr a’Chaisteal preserves the low, turf-covered defences of an Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) dun and its link to Arran’s wide…
- Near Blackwaterfoot
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torwoodlee Broch
Scottish Borders
Roman pottery, glass and a coin found packed inside its walls turn this collapsed tower into rare physical evidence of contact: hostile or looted:…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tre'r Ceiri
Gwynedd
Its dry-stone ramparts still stand up to four metres high around some 150 roundhouses: one of the best-preserved Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to…
- Near Bangor
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trendle Ring
Somerset
Trendle Ring is an undated Quantock earthwork (a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building) whose steep slope, single rampart (a defens…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Treryn Dinas
Cornwall
Treryn Dinas is an Iron Age cliff fort: the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest: whose successive ramparts, Logan Rock and coastal cul…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trusty's Hill
Dumfries and Galloway
Carved into the living rock near the entrance to a small vitrified hillfort, a Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland f…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tunley Camp
Somerset
Tunley Camp is a nearly ploughed-down early fortified settlement that illustrates how modest earthworks fit into wider debates about power, farming…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Twmbarlwm
Caerphilly
A hillfort, a Norman castle mound and a giant's grave all share one summit, and the hill's silhouette is still read across Gwent as a symbol of the…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tynron Doon
Dumfries and Galloway
Three ditches and two ramparts, some of them cut directly into the rock, guard the only gentle approach to Tynron Doon. On its other three sides th…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Uffington Castle
Oxfordshire
An Iron Age hillfort: a defended settlement on high ground: whose ramparts still carry a facing of white sarsen stone, standing directly beside the…
- Near Uffington
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Uley Bury
Gloucestershire
Its double rampart (an encircling bank built for defence), terraced for over a mile around a 13-hectare hilltop, ranks it among the largest and bes…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Verlamion
Hertfordshire
Tasciovanus, the first ruler in Britain known to have struck coins bearing his own name, chose this hill as the seat from which he governed the Cat…
- Near St Albans
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Vespasian's Camp
Wiltshire
Long before Stonehenge's stones went up, this hillside was already a gathering place: flint tools dug up here in 2010 were called ‘the most importa…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Voley Castle
Devon
Voley Castle is a rare Devon slight univallate hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement: whose unusual outer earthwork, a bank or ditch shaped from…
- Near Parracombe
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wadbury Camp
Somerset
A promontory fort guarding the Mendip mining district: and probably an outwork of the larger camp across the river.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wain's Hill
Somerset
Wain's Hill is a compact defended settlement dating from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest. Its natural slopes and surviving eas…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Walbury Hill
Berkshire
The ground beneath its ramparts is the highest natural point in South East England, and on a clear day the view reaches all the way to The Shard in…
- Near Combe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wallace's House
Dumfries and Galloway
Wallace's House is an earthen rampart (an encircling bank built for defence) raised on a promontory near Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway. The de…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Walton Castle
Somerset
A castellated hunting lodge of 1615, derelict as a farm dairy by 1791, and rebuilt as a five-bedroom house in 1979.
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Walton Common
Somerset
Walton Common layers a late Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) banjo enclosure and Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) barrows ove…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wandlebury Hill
Cambridgeshire
A vanished Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest: whose earthworks later became the sta…
- Near Cambridge
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wandlebury Hill Fort
Cambridgeshire
The most important of three Iron Age hillforts: settlements from the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC: guarding the Gog Magog Hills…
- Near Cambridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wapley Hill
Herefordshire
A shaft sunk some 33 metres into the hilltop during the late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) lies within earthworks late…
- Near Presteigne
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Warham Camp
Norfolk
Warham Camp is Norfolk’s best-preserved hillfort, an Iron Age: the centuries before Rome arrived: settlement defended by banks and ditches on high…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wasteberry Camp
Devon
Wasteberry Camp records an Iron Age hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts: on low Devon woodland above Silverbridge Lake, preservi…
- Near Blackpool
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Welshbury Hill
Gloucestershire
A hillfort remembered less for its earthworks than for the battle local tradition places here: the last stand of the Dobunni against Rome.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Westbury Camp
Somerset
Westbury Camp is a settlement defended in roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest in the Mendip Hills. Its damaged banks still reveal how quarrying…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wetwang Slack
East Riding of Yorkshire
A dry valley floor concealed three Iron Age burials of young adults laid out on dismantled chariots: among the most significant Middle Iron Age gra…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
White Meldon
Scottish Borders
Four concentric rampart (the raised bank thrown up around a fortified enclosure) lines and at least 29 round-house platforms make this one of the l…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Whitsbury Castle
Hampshire
A private manor house now sits inside earthworks reused across six millennia by hunters, herders, settlers and Anglo-Saxon refortifiers, all of who…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wincobank (hill fort)
South Yorkshire
Its rampart timbers were found vitrified: burned with such intensity that the stone facings fused, evidence archaeologists read as a trace of real…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Winkelbury Camp
Wiltshire
Its ramparts were never built to one plan: three incomplete, irregular phases of construction, probably raised by separate work gangs, show a fort…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wittenham Clumps
Oxfordshire
Two rounded hills above the flat Thames valley, each crowned with beeches planted in the 1740s.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodbury Castle
Devon
Woodbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: commanding broad views of the Exe Est…
- Near Woodbury
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodbury Hill
Worcestershire
An Iron Age hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) where two armies faced off in 1405 and Glyndŵr's Welsh and French forces withd…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodbury Hill, Dorset
Dorset
Woodbury Hill combines an Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest: with a medieval…
- Near Bere Regis
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodbury, Stoke Fleming
Devon
Woodbury near Stoke Fleming marks an Iron Age promontory hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, dating from…
- Near Stoke Fleming
- Some walking
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Settlement · Iron Age
Woodcutts Settlement
Dorset
Woodcutts Settlement is a classic Pitt Rivers excavation, revealing how a small farmstead on Cranborne Chase changed across three Roman-period phas…
- Near Woodcutts
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodhouse hill fort
Cheshire
A 1951 excavation gave rare hard data for a Cheshire hillfort: the rampart's original height, stone facing and even its slingstones: where earthwor…
- Near Helsby
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wookey Hole Caves
Somerset
Wookey Hole combines a living underground river with 45,000 years of human and animal evidence, pioneering cave diving and an industrial paper-maki…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woolbury
Hampshire
Its southern rampart carries a crude flint-and-chalk horse, the only hill figure of its kind in Hampshire, cut into a hilltop enclosure still guard…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woolsbarrow Hillfort
Dorset
Woolsbarrow preserves a rare slight univallate hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts: on Dorset heath, with much of its defensive…
- Near Wareham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wooston Castle
Devon
Wooston Castle is an Iron Age hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts: above the Teign Valley, forming part of a documented local cl…
- Near Moretonhampstead
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Worlebury Camp
Somerset
Worlebury Camp is a heavily defended hilltop settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest. Its pits, weapons and human remain…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wraxall Camp
Somerset
A small round bank and ditch in woodland, probably an ancient farmstead rather than a fort.
- Near Failand
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wychbury Ring
Worcestershire
Two full circuits of bank and ditch enclosing nearly three hectares of Wychbury Hill: a serious defensive statement, not a modest lookout.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yarnbury Castle
Wiltshire
Traces of some 130 dwellings and nine infant burials in its ditches mark this out as one of Wessex's most intensively lived-in hillforts: yet it su…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yeavering Bell
Northumberland
Yeavering Bell combines a massive defended hilltop enclosure with views toward the Anglian royal centre below, joining upland settlement to early N…
- Rough ground
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More places
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ashleys Copse
Wiltshire
The earthworks at Ashley's Copse sit not on the crown of their hill but slightly to its eastern side, below the 166-metre summit, on ground that le…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Backwell Hillfort
Somerset
Once defended by a ditch and bank, this Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort was nearly erased by quarrying after its discovery,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Balksbury
Hampshire
A once-triangular Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) largely swallowed by a bypass and housin…
- Near Andover
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Castle
Devon
At roughly 290 metres above sea level, Beacon Castle occupies a hilltop close to Parracombe in Devon, its position commanding the ground that falls…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
An Iron Age hilltop settlement, of the centuries before Rome arrived from about 800 BC, on some of the oldest volcanic rock in Britain, inside a co…
- Near Woodhouse
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Castle, Huntshaw
Devon
Berry Castle preserves a rectangular Huntshaw Wood enclosure whose 2015 clearance revealed opposing entrances but left its Roman or early farming-p…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bolt Tail
Devon
Bolt Tail preserves faint remains of an ancient fort built across a South Hams headland, later marked by nearby shipwrecks.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Borough Hill, Sawston
Cambridgeshire
A broad oval enclosure some 430 metres across, ringed by more than one bank and ditch: a defensive scheme built at real scale, not a token boundary.
- Near Sawston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bow Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A South Downs ridge carrying a cross dyke, tumuli, long barrows, an Iron Age hillfort and four Bronze Age barrows: the interest is along it, not on…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bremridge Wood
Devon
Bremridge Wood preserves an Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) enclosure above the River Bray on land linked with a Domesday estate.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Buarth-y-Gaer
Neath Port Talbot
On Mynydd-y-Gaer above the Neath estuary, this roughly circular 130-metre bank and ditch preserves a large defended enclosure whose date and purpos…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bullsdown Camp
Hampshire
Three concentric banks and ditches survive under dense woodland: a defended plateau settlement whose scale still reads clearly despite centuries of…
- Near Basingstoke
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burgh Walls Camp
Somerset
An Iron Age defended settlement in Leigh Woods above the Avon, one of three such forts nearby.
- Near Long Ashton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burledge Hill
somerset
Iron slag from the 1955 dig shows metal was being worked inside the fort: and the shift to iron is the change most archaeologists think produced fo…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Burridge Fort
Devon
An Iron Age hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement, north-east of Barnstaple, whose high position above two rivers shows the strategic use of Devo…
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Iron Age
Carminow Cross
Cornwall
Carminow’s pierced-wheel head, separate shaft and Victorian base make it a distinctive Cornish wayside cross whose repeated moves reveal changing t…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Carn Euny
Cornwall
Carn Euny preserves the visible stone houses and a 20-metre fogou of a settlement occupied from the Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman co…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Head, Devon
Devon
Castle Head commands a tight bend of the River Tamar, where an Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) promontory fort (a c…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Hill, Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
A vitrified fort: its ramparts burned hot enough to fuse the stone. Such sites are rare in England and usual in Scotland.
- Near Huddersfield
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Hill, Torrington
Devon
Castle Hill, Torrington, identifies two separate elevated earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) sites: the…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Law
Midlothian
Castle Law is a scheduled Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hill fort in the Pentlands, preserving earthworks and a s…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caterthun
Angus
Two Iron Age hillforts crown the same ridge: fortified settlements built by communities living before and during the early centuries of recorded hi…
- Some walking
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Settlement · Iron Age
Chisenbury Camp
Wiltshire
Excavated pottery, worked stone and human burial remains now sit in Devizes Museum, the clearest surviving trace of an Iron Age (from around 800 BC…
- Near Upavon
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clumlie Broch
Shetland Islands
Clumlie Broch stands on a low rise amid flat arable ground in Dunrossness, on southern Shetland Mainland, roughly eight kilometres north of Sumburg…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cluny Hill
Moray
Cluny Hill brings together a confirmed prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks…
- Near Forres
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dewerstone
Devon
Dewerstone combines a defensible promontory above the Plym, dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest, with Dartmoor’s enduring super…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dinghurst fort
Somerset
A defended hilltop south of Churchill, enclosed by a scarp.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dodman Point
Cornwall
South Cornwall's highest headland, where an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) promontory fort (a coastal spur defende…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dolbury
Devon
Dolbury is the local name for a hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground between roughly 800 BC and the Roman conquest:…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Doon of May
Dumfries and Galloway
The facing stones of the wall have almost entirely gone, but the heat that once fused the rampart (an encircling bank built for defence) still show…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dumyat
Clackmannanshire
Dumyat’s Castle Law preserves an excavated hill fort with evidence for occupation from around 500 BC and again in the fifth to seventh centuries AD.
- Near Alloa
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dun Ardtreck
Highland
A cliff-edge Skye fort twice built and twice destroyed by fire: one of the clearest examples anywhere of the transitional "semi-broch (a tall circu…
- Near Tokavaig
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Duncorn Hill
Somerset
A rounded flat-topped hill of 178 metres on the limestone plateau south of Bath, close to the Fosse Way.
- Near Bath
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Duropolis
Dorset
Duropolis is a large Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) settlement near Winterborne Kingston whose dense roundhouse pl…
- Near Winterborne Kingston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eggardon Hill
Dorset
Eggardon Hill is a major Dorset landscape from before any written account of Britain existed, where a 21-hectare defended enclosure, burial mounds…
- Near Askerswell
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Embury Beacon
Devon
Embury Beacon makes coastal change visible: an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) fort has been drastically reduced by erosion,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Enfield Old Park
Greater London
Enfield Old Park preserves one of Middlesex’s rare Domesday deer parks, combining an Iron Age, from the centuries before Rome arrived, hillfort, a…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Fin Cop
Derbyshire
A 2011 dig found a mass grave of only women and children in its ditch: the earliest known segregated burial of its kind in Iron Age (roughly 800 BC…
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Folly Hill
oxfordshire
A tower with a sign warning that members of the public committing suicide from it did so at their own risk. It stands on an ancient ditched ring th…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gaer (Black Mountains)
Monmouthshire
At 427 metres above sea level, the summit of Gaer sits inside the earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gaer Fawr, Llanilar
Ceredigion
One of only around 300 Welsh hillforts formally protected by Cadw, out of an estimated 570 that survive across the country.
- Near Llanilar
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Greenala Point
Pembrokeshire
A promontory framed by sandstone cliffs on the Pembrokeshire south coast, some five kilometres from the nearest village.
- Near Pembroke
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Halangy Down
Cornwall
Halangy Down condenses five centuries of prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) and Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–4…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
High Peak, Devon
Devon
High Peak is an eroding coastal hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement dating from the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: above th…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hillsborough, Devon
Devon
Hillsborough preserves a large, partly eroded Iron Age promontory fort: a headland cut off by ramparts to make a defensible enclosure: within an Il…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Holbury, Holbeton
Devon
Holbury records an Iron Age hillfort: an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks: overlooking the Erme Estuary, preserving a strategically place…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hollybush Hill
Herefordshire
One hillfort spans two summits: its earthworks run unbroken from Hollybush Hill onto neighbouring Midsummer Hill, binding the pair into a single de…
- Near Hollybush
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kilpatrick Dun
North Ayrshire
Kilpatrick Dun is a substantial later Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) fortified residence on Arran, with an eight-m…
- Near Blackwaterfoot
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lee Wood
Devon
Lee Wood is an unexcavated Devon hill-slope enclosure where finds and a partly exposed hearth point to activity across several early periods.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lewesdon Hill
Dorset
Lewesdon Hill is Dorset’s highest point, pairing wide landscape views with a disputed hillfort, an Armada beacon site and a remembered Second World…
- Near Broadwindsor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Loch na Berie
Outer Hebrides
Loch na Berie sits some 400 yards from the shore of the Isle of Lewis, its broch (a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, found only in Scotland…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lockerley Camp
Hampshire
Ploughing has worn its single rampart to a soil mark across most of the site: only a fragment under trees still stands as an earthwork, a hillfort…
- Near Lockerley
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mallabeny
County Tyrone
Mallabeny’s large Scheduled hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) preserves a substantial ancient enclosure within a small County…
- Near Dungannon
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mellor hill fort
Greater Manchester
Mellor hill fort is Greater Manchester’s only hill fort, preserving an Iron Age settlement: from the centuries before Rome arrived: above the Chesh…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mockham Down
Devon
Mockham Down is a high Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) whose multiple di…
- Near Brayfordhill
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Moel y Gest
Gwynedd
Moel y Gest is a prominent hill west of Porthmadog whose summit hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement: uses natural cliffs, looped walls and a ci…
- Near Porthmadog
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Myrtlebury
Devon
Myrtlebury preserves an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillside enclosure above the East Lyn valley, making prehistoric (before…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Iron Age
Navan Fort
Armagh
Navan Fort is one of Ireland's great prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) ceremonial monuments, where a huge Iron Age…
- Near Armagh
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Newberry Castle
Devon
Newberry Castle turns a misleading name into a lesson: low earthworks rather than masonry preserve an unexcavated enclosure from the centuries befo…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norman's Law
Fife
Norman’s Law pairs a scheduled defended settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest with commanding views over Fife, the Tay…
- Near St Andrews
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Old Scatness
Shetland Islands
Construction of a perimeter road for Sumburgh Airport in the late 1970s sliced into a grassy mound at the southern tip of Shetland Mainland, exposi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pen Dinas
Ceredigion
Cardigan Bay's pre-eminent hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived from about 800 BC: formed by…
- Near Aberystwyth
- 900 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Peniel Heugh
Scottish Borders
A 237-metre hill near Ancrum carrying both an ancient defended settlement and the Waterloo Monument.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Peppercombe
Devon
Peppercombe combines a deep North Devon coastal valley, rare red Permian outlier geology and the poorly defined remains of an Iron Age hillfort: a…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pilsdon Pen
Dorset
Pilsdon Pen is Dorset’s second-highest hill and a major Durotrigian hillfort, an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) se…
- Near Broadwindsor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Raddon Top
Devon
Raddon Top preserves evidence for Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain), Early Iron Age and later Iron Age use on the hig…
- Near Cheriton Fitzpaine
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Rame Head
Cornwall
Rame Head is an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) promontory fort (a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Sancreed Beacon
Cornwall
Sancreed Beacon is a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) hilltop landscape in Penwith where cists, burial mounds and a hut s…
- Near Sancreed
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Seaton Down
Devon
Seaton Down is an unusual Iron Age promontory fort: a headland cut off by a bank to make a defensible enclosure: whose long linear barrier demonstr…
- Near Seaton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Shoulsbury castle
Devon
Shoulsbury Castle is Exmoor’s largest and best-known hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement: with an unusual rectangular plan that has prompted de…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trawscoed fort
Ceredigion
A Roman fort for up to 800 infantry, discovered from aerial marks and placed to command a river crossing on the route through Ceredigion.
- Near Trawsgoed
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trink Hill
Cornwall
Trink Hill preserves a summit barrow: a prehistoric burial mound of earth: standing stone and mining landscape above west Cornwall, showing how a s…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Walton Common banjo enclosure
Somerset
Walton Common preserves a rare Somerset banjo enclosure, an easily overlooked Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) earthwork (a b…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Warbstow Bury
Cornwall
Warbstow Bury is one of Cornwall's largest Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) earthworks, with double ramparts, deep ditches an…
- Near Launceston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wind Hill
Devon
Wind Hill records a heavily defended Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) spur enclosure above the East Lyn valley near Lynmouth, whe…
- Near Lynmouth
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Windbury Head
Devon
Windbury Head preserves the surviving southern ramparts of an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) coastal hillfort (an upland en…
- Near Clovelly
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Y Garn Goch
Carmarthenshire
Two Iron Age hillforts crown a common-access hill above the Towy Valley, together described as the largest in southern Wales.
- Near Bethlehem
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yarrowbury
Devon
Yarrowbury is an Iron Age hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches, dating from the centuries before Rome arriv…
- Near Bigbury
- Some walking
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