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From the air, its hidden tree-covered slopes give little clue to the settlement that existed there 3,000 years ago. And its position in one of the quietest corners of the nation may seem a million miles away from the bustle of todays towns and cities. But historians have now described an ancient Iron A...
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Chun Castle
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Chûn Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on the summit of Chûn Downs, commanding extensive views north and north-west to the Atlantic Coast and south towards Mounts Bay. Pottery evidence from excavations carried out in the late 1920s and early 1930s suggests that the main period of occupation extended f...
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Dunnideer Hill
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Dunnideer Castle, now ruined, was a tower house located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was built c.1260 partially from the remains of an existing vitrified hill fort in the same location. Read more Dunnideer Hill rises to 268m abo...
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Dunadd Hill Fort
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Dunadd, (Scottish Gaelic Dùn Add, 'fort on the [River] Add', is an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata Read more
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The Hill of Barra
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Iron Age Hillfort in Aberdeenshire. Expand (154kb, 800 x 600) Latitude: 57°19'16.97"N, Longitude: 2°19'46.38"W The Barra Hill fort bears certain resemblances to the Barmekin of Echt (NJ70NW 1). The innermost line of defence is a ruined wall which encloses an area measuring 400ft...
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Eddisbury Hill
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Eddisbury Hill gives up its secrets Eddisbury Hill is slowly revealing its iron age secrets as a team of archaeologists and volunteers dig to the past. Guardian chief reporter Gina Bebbington ventured up the hill, at Delamere Forest, on Thursday to see what had been uncovered as the excavation near...
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Burrough Hill hillfort
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Fieldschool at the Iron Age hillfort of Burrough Hill in Leicestershire Public open day on Sunday June 26th, 11am to 4pm, Burrough Hill, near Melton Mowbray An ancient Leicestershire hillfort will reveal some of its historic secrets over the next month, as archaeologists from the University of Le...
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Fin Cop Hillfort
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Mass burial suggests massacre at Iron Age hill fort Archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre linked to Iron Age warfare at a hill fort in Derbyshire. A burial site contained only women and children - the first segregated burial of this kind from Iron Age Britain. Nine skeletons were discover...
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Ham Hill Hillfort
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Somerset's Ham Hill iron age fort excavation under way A major excavation is under way to explore the unclear history of Britain's largest Iron Age hill fort. The purpose of the Ham Hill site in Somerset is not known but researchers are now hoping to gain a deeper insight into life 2,000 years ago. [url...
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Cleeve Common hill fort
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Archaeologists have stepped in to save an ancient iron age monument on Cleeve Common. Archaeologists have stepped in to save an ancient iron age monument on Cleeve Common. The historic hill fort located on the edge of the scarp on the common had been eroded by the thousands of walkers who use the beaut...
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