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Dundon Hill

← World Heritage Dundon Hill Fort Dundon Hill rises as a freestanding limestone knoll above King’s Sedgemoor near Compton Dundon in central Somerset. A single earth-and-stone Read more Guide – Exploring the Past with LIDAR Imagine being able to see the landscape around you in a completely new way—an invisible layer revealing the hidden structures …

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Craig Phadrig Hill Fort

Craig Phadraig is a hilltop fort within a Forestry Commission plantation, 2.5km west of Inverness. It occupies a position with excelent views over the Beauly Firth.

Clickhimin Broch

Clickhimin Broch, Shetland Islands

This site was occupied in several periods, originally late Bronze age between 700 – 500BC. Firstly a simple farmstead which expanded to a blockhouse (fort) and then by a huge circular broch. A population of around 60 lived in this little fortress. Later, 2nd century occupation is shown when a wheelhouse was added.

Cerne Abbas Giant Hill Figure

Cerne Abbas Giant is possibly the oldest hill figure in Britain.

Dorset

← World Heritage Arka Unskel hillfort, Highlands Arka Unskel is 2½ miles ESE of Arisaig at NM693839 and has also been known as Arisaig Fort, Ard Ghaunsgoik Read more Castle Hill, Almondbury Castle Hill’s imposing silhouette hides a great prehistoric fort, Norman castle and Victorian tower. Thanks to Varley’s trenches and the Read more West …

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Castle Point Fort, Cullykhan, Pennan

10 miles W of Fraserburgh. Access to this promontory fort is by a motorable track N from the B9031, W of the steep-sided valley of the Tore of Troup.

Grampian

← World Heritage Arka Unskel hillfort, Highlands Arka Unskel is 2½ miles ESE of Arisaig at NM693839 and has also been known as Arisaig Fort, Ard Ghaunsgoik Read more Castle Hill, Almondbury Castle Hill’s imposing silhouette hides a great prehistoric fort, Norman castle and Victorian tower. Thanks to Varley’s trenches and the Read more West …

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Castle Naze Hill Fort

This is a promontory fort of probable Iron Age date. It uses the natural cliffs of the hill that it stands to protect its northern and western sides. It is triangular in form, and to protect its south-eastern face, a very impressive double rampart of possibly later Iron Age construction has been thrown up.

Castercliff Hill Fort

This denuded hillfort is oval and encloses almost two acres. The defences comprise triple circuits of bank and ditch, with scarps representing outworks to the NE. The innermost bank is the slightest and may represent an earlier, univallate fort.

Brigantia

Carton Castle - Google

The name Brigantia represents three separate concepts: a goddess, a people, and a tribal federation. By the Roman period, the name represented a tribal federation compromising all of what would become the Roman province of Britannia Secunda, except for the Parisi territory, east of the River Derwent.

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