Toothill Fort, or Toothill Ring, or Toothill camp, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hill fort located in Hampshire. The site occupies an extremely...
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List of hillforts in England (redirect from List of hill forts in England)
Retrieved 15 July 2017. "Toothill Fort Hillfort". The Modern Antiquarian. Retrieved 15 July 2017. "Tourner Bury Plateau Fort". The Modern Antiquarian...
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Maiden Castle, Dorset (category Hill forts in Dorset)
(2.6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the...
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Mount Caburn (category Hill forts in East Sussex)
Ouse. On the summit of Caburn are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. The hill fort has been repeatedly excavated, by Augustus Pitt Rivers from 1877–78...
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Cissbury Ring (redirect from Cissbury Fort)
Neolithic flint mine and Iron Age hillfort. Cissbury Ring is the largest hill fort in Sussex, the second largest in England and one of the largest in Europe...
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Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire (category Hill forts in Gloucestershire)
Neolithic long barrow, Belas Knap. On its western scarp is an Iron Age hill fort. The Hill bears one of the few rock faces in the area, Castle Rock, which...
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Mam Tor (category Hill forts in Derbyshire)
hill is crowned by a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hill fort, and two Bronze Age bowl barrows. At the base of the Tor and nearby are four...
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Barbury Castle (category Hill forts in Wiltshire)
is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route. The site, which lies within the...
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Old Sarum (category Hill forts in Wiltshire)
period, when the paths were made into roads. The Saxons took the British fort in the 6th century and later used it as a stronghold against marauding Vikings...
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is the part of the Downs south of Stoke Road. There is an Iron Age hill fort at Clifton Camp on Observatory Hill on the down, and there are remnants of...
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Badbury Rings (category Hill forts in Dorset)
Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple...
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Uffington Castle (category Hill forts in Berkshire)
occupied throughout the Iron Age. Isolated postholes were found inside the fort but no evidence of buildings. Pottery, loom weights and animal bone finds...
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Wandlebury Hill Fort, also known as the Wandlebury Ring, is an Iron Age hillfort located on Wandlebury Hill in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, England...
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British Camp (category Hill forts in Herefordshire)
British Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills. The hill fort is protected as a Scheduled Ancient...
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Highdown Hill (redirect from Highdown Hill (Hill Fort))
north, the ancient hill forts of Cissbury Ring and Chanctonbury Ring can be seen, and the visible remains of a Bronze Age hill fort exist on the summit of...
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Caer Caradoc (category Hill forts in Shropshire)
Caer Caradoc (Welsh: Caer Caradog, the fort of Caradog) is a hill in the English county of Shropshire. It overlooks the town of Church Stretton and the...
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Pilsdon Pen (category Hill forts in Dorset)
The remains of 14 roundhouses were uncovered near the centre of the hill fort. Surveys were also carried out by the National Trust in 1982, the Royal Commission...
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Chanctonbury Ring (category Hill forts in West Sussex)
Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in...
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Eddisbury hill fort, also known as Castle Ditch, is an Iron Age hill fort near Delamere, Cheshire, in northern England. Hill forts are fortified hill-top...
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Castle Crag (category Hill forts in Cumbria)
death in 1947. The summit area is believed to have been an ancient hill fort, although the western section has been sliced away by quarrying. It can only...
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Wincobank (grid reference SK377910) is an Iron Age hill fort near Wincobank in Sheffield, England. The fort stands on an isolated sandstone hill that forms the...
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Hambledon Hill (category Hill forts in Dorset)
Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk...
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Oldbury Camp (redirect from Oldbury hill fort)
Oldbury Camp (also known as Oldbury hill fort) is the largest Iron Age hill fort in south-eastern England. It was built in the 1st century BC by Celtic...
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Liddington Castle (category Hill forts in Wiltshire)
surviving command bunker, located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north-east of the fort, and a metal trough used to simulate explosions and fire. Liddington Castle...
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Winkelbury Camp (category Hill forts in Wiltshire)
Berwick St John, in Wiltshire, England. It is a scheduled monument. The fort is on the northern spur of Winkelbury Hill. A single rampart bank forming...
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Boddington Camp (category Hill forts in Buckinghamshire)
of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, England. It is a scheduled monument. The fort is on the summit of Boddington Hill. There is a single rampart and outer...
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Thornbury, Herefordshire (category Hill forts in Herefordshire)
the village and just over the border in Worcestershire is Garmsley Hill fort, enclosing an area about 330 m long and 150 m wide. The walls are about 10 m...
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Castle Hill, Huddersfield (category Hill forts in West Yorkshire)
had at some stage suffered from a severe episode of burning. Vitrified forts such as Castle Hill are rarely found in England, and are more usual in Scotland...
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Walbury Hill (category Hill forts in Berkshire)
natural point in South East England. On the hill's summit is the Iron Age hill fort of Walbury Camp, whilst the flanks of the hill lie within the Inkpen and...
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