A hilltop settlement surrounded by defensive earth ramparts and ditches. Common in the early and middle Iron Ages.
A defended Iron Age settlement. They are usually situated in places that offer some degree of protection and a good view of the neighbourhood (such as a hill). Fortification was provided by one or more banks of earth or stones, or by a wall. Some hillforts were also defended by ditches.
Hilltop enclosure fortified by one or more ramparts and ditches. Many contain the outlines of huts and were probably defended villages
The hillfort is a settlement sited on a hilltop defended by one or more lines of ramparts. Hillfort building began in the British Isles from about 800 BC and continued up to the Roman Conquest.
Bronze or iron age earthwork defenses of concentric ditches and banks.
A hillfort is an Iron Age enclosure on a hill, surrounded by one or more substantial banks, ramparts and ditches.
Hillforts are large enclosures on the top of hills surrounded by one or more earthworks Usually the ramparts also have a ditch running alongside them. They usually contain the remains of round houses and other buildings. Although they may have their origin in the Bronze Age (2300BC to 800BC) or even earlier they were most commonly built in the Iron Age (800BC to AD43). They may have continued to be used into the Roman period.
