There are 1,224 hill forts in England.[1] Although some originate in the Bronze Age, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain). There was a trend in the 2nd century BC for hill forts to fall out of use.[2]
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^"Bussock Camp Hillfort". The Modern Antiquarian. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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Cunliffe, Barry (1983). Danebury: Anatomy of an Iron Age Hillfort. Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-0998-3.
Further readingedit
Forde-Johnston, James (1962). "The Iron Age Hillforts of Lancashire and Cheshire". Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. 72: 9–46.
Forde-Johnston, James (1976). Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales: a survey of the surface evidence. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-381-0.
Sutton, J. E. G. (1966). "Iron Age Hill-Forts and some other Earthworks in Oxfordshire". Oxoniensia. 31: 28–42.
External linksedit
"Hillforts Atlas Project". A crowd-sourced project to map the hillforts of Britain and Ireland.