Iron Age – Page 5 – Brigantes Nation

The Brigantes of Lancashire

By George in Brigantia, Tribes

An interesting heading in Robert Morden’s map of Lancashire (1695) places “The Brigantes” in Lancashire. Worth investigating to try to understand exactly what Robert Morden was trying to portray here.

Tap O’Noth Hill Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

This is one of the best examples of a vitrified fort, it is near the village of Rhynie in northeastern Scotland. This massive fort from prehistory is on the summit of a mountain of the same name which, being 1,859 feet (560 metres) high, commands an impressive view of the Aberdeenshire countryside.

Knockfarrel Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

This had substantial ramparts made of stones with a timber frame, enclosing a large area and making good use of the natural defences of the hill-top.

Wincobank Hill Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

This is an oval fort with an internal area of 2.5 acres. A bank, ditch and counterscarp bank are continuous around it except on the N side where ditch and counterscarp have been destroyed.

Sutton Common Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age

Sutton Common is an early Iron Age fort/enclosure site just north of Doncaster, A key feature of this “marsh fort” is that it seems to use the surrounding marsh land as part of its defence – a twist on the more common hill fort.

Scoles Coppice Fort

By George in Fort, Hill Fort, Iron Age

Little is known about the camp at Scholes Coppice, but it’s small size and proximity to Roman Rig mean it could well have been used as a patrol fort for the Roman Rig defence.

Norham Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age

Norham Iron Age Hill Fort

Mam Tor Hill Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age

Despite is unusually high position, this fort contains traces of a number of huts, and on investigation these have yielded plentiful pottery, as well as charcoal giving a surprisingly early radio carbon date

Finavon Fort

By George in Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

Finavon Hill has attracted a great deal of archaeological interest from antiquarians and archaeologists over the years especially since it displayed traces of vitrified rock.

Angus, Finavon, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Tayside
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Eileen na Goar Fort

By George in Bronze Age, Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

This island, locally termed Eilean na Goar, is the most eastern and is bounded on all sides by precipitous gneiss rocks; it is the abode and nesting place of numerous sea birds. The flat surface on the top is 120 feet from the sea level, and the remains of the vitrified fort are situated on this, oblong in form, with a continuous rampart of vitrified wall five feet thick, attached at the SW end to a large upright rock of gneiss

Period: Iron Age