Location: west-yorkshire

Elslack Roman Fort

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Brigantia

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.

Barwick in Elmet Iron Age Hill Fort

“The scale and function of the earthworks, which may comprise a rampart, a ditch and a counterscarp bank, is massive and assumed to be defensive though large univallate hillforts may have been built on the sites of earlier non-defensive enclosures such as slight univallate hillforts. In area large univallate hillforts vary between 1 and 10 hectares.

West Yorkshire

← BrigantiaLinked DocumentsAlmondbury Hill FortView of Castle Hill, Almondbury, as it looks today with the Victorian tower on the top. Also Varley plan of Almondbury. Another plan of Almondbury, showing the outer ditchesCastle Hill, AlmondburyUnderneath these medieval earthworks is a series of earlier defenses which dates back to the early Iron Age. This was the …

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Castle Hill, Almondbury

An image illustrating an article about Vitified Forts – Group Home on thealicesyndrome.com

Underneath these medieval earthworks is a series of earlier defenses which dates back to the early Iron Age. This was the building which burned down and it is regarded as one of Yorkshire’s most important early Iron Age hill forts, it is one of Yorkshires true multi-valet hill forts and gives the impression of a tribal capital of a significant region, given the lack of similar hill forts in the region.

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