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Hillforts and defended settlements

ENGLAND

Badbury Rings

Grid Reference: ST 964 030
multivallet hillfort
shapwick, near Wimbourne Minster, Dorset
For further information on this site see www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=209560

Badbury Rings

Barcombe Hill

Grid Reference: NY 783 668
Iron Age hillfort/settlement with Roman signal station
nr Bardon Mill, Northumberland
For further information on this site see pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=15186

Barcombe Hill

Beacon Hill

Grid Reference: SU 458 573
Iron Age Hillfort, Burghclere, near Newbury, Berkshire
For further information on this site see Pastscape www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=232559

Beacon Hill

Bosigran Castle

Grid Reference: SW 416 369
Remains of a promontory fort / cliff castle
Bosigran, Zennor, Cornwall
For further information on this site see www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=423566

Bosigran Castle

Brent Tor

Grid Reference: SX 471 803
unusual/possible single vallet hillfort/enclosure, with a 12thCentury church on the summit of the Tor
Brentor, Devon
For further information on this site see www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=438139

Brent Tor

Castle Folds

Grid Reference: NY 6499 0936
defended Romano-British settlement with a later sheep fold
Great Asby Scar - National Nature Reserve, Cumbria
For further information on this site see www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=13210

Castle Folds

Chun Castle, Cornwall

Grid Reference: SW 405 339
Iron Age Hillfort, settlement on Chun Down, Nature Reserve, Cornwall
For further information on this site see Historic Cornwall www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/.../chun_castle.htm (Opens in new window)

Chun Castle (viewed from the east)

Chun Castle - Entrance

Chun Castle

Leckhampton Hill

Grid Reference: SO 947 183
singlevallet hillfort or promontory fort, situated on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment
nr Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For further information on this site see pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=117424

Leckhampton Hill

Mam Tor, Derbyshire

Grid Reference: SK 128 837
Iron Age Hillfort near Castleton, Derbyshire
For further information on this site see Pastscape www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=309590

Mam Tor

Old Oswestry

Grid Reference: SJ 295 310
large multivallate hillfort
Oswestry, Shropshire
For further information on this site see pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=66112

Old Oswestry

Painswick Beacon

Grid Reference: SO 869 120
multivallet hillfort, situated on the edge of the Cotswolds.
nr Painswick, Gloucestershire
For further information on this site see http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=115542

Painswick Beacon

Scotland

Caddonlee

Grid Reference: NT 439 355
hillfort
nr Clovenfords, Scottish Borders (formerly Selkirkshire)
For further information on this site see canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/54413/details/caddonlee/

Caddonlee

Chatto Craig

Grid Reference: NT 767 166
hillfort
nr Hownam, Scottish Borders (formerly Roxburghshire)
For further information on this site see canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/57959/details/chatto+craig/

Chatto Craig

Knock Farril, Vitrified Hillfort

Grid Reference: NH 505 585
Vitrified Hillfort near Dingwall
For further information on this site see Canmore canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/12782/details/knock+farril/

Knock Farril

Henderland Hill

Grid Reference: NT 149 459
Bivallate fort and later enclosure
Newlands, Scottish Boders (formerly Peeblesshire)
For further information on this site see canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/50030/details/henderland+hill/

Henderland Hill

Isle Head, Isle of Whithorn

Grid Reference: NX 480 360
Promontory fort
Isle of Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway
For further information on this site see canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/63098/details/isle+head/

Isle Head

Snaip Hill

Grid Reference: NT 0246 3269
hillfort
Coulter, South Lanarkshire
For further information on this site see canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/48778/details/snaip+hill/

Snaip Hill

Southdean Law

Grid Reference: NT 635 094
hillfort
nr Chesters, Scottish Borders (formerly Roxburghshire)
For further information on this site see canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56826/details/southdean+law/

Southdean Law

Woden Law, Scottish Borders

Grid Reference: NT 767 125
Iron Age Hillfort, with Roman practice siegeworks
For further information on this site see Canmore canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/58068/details/woden+law/

Woden Law

Wales

Tre'r Ceiri

Grid Reference: SH 373 446
One of the best preserved Iron Age hillforts in Britain, its use continued until the 4thCenturyAD
Tre'r Ceiri, Llanaelhaearn, Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd
For further information on this site see http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/95292/details/....%27%2C+LLANAELHAEARN/

Tre'r Ceiri

Twyn-y-Gaer

Grid Reference: SN 990 280
defended enclosure
near Brecon, Powys
For further information on this site see www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305069/details/TWYN+Y+GAER%3BY+GAER....

Twyn-y-Gaer