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Rampart at Croft Ambrey. The monument includes a small multivallate hillfort with an annexe containing a Romano-Celtic temple and a medieval warren of up to five pillow mounds on the summit of a prominent steeply sloping spur overlooking Yatton Marsh and the valley of a tributary to Allcock's Brook. The hillfort survives as a roughly triangular ...
Walbury Hill, Berkshire Bickerton Hill, Cheshire Castle an Dinas, Cornwall Castle Crag, Cumbria Danebury Ring Arbury Hill The Wrekin Cadbury Castle, Somerset Chanctonbury Ring Bredon Hill Carl Wark, Peak District Wychbury Hill Old Sarum, by John Constable Hembury Hillfort Poundbury Eggardon Hill Eston Nab, North Yorkshire Beacon Hill, Hampshire ...
The "extensive" park, contained ancient oak and beech trees. Described as being "on an eminence in the north-western north-western part of the park" is the hillfort of Croft Ambrey, "said to have been the camp of the British king, Ambrosius" (Ambrosius Aurelianus), elliptical in form with double ditch and ramparts. From the camp can be seen ...
Thundersbarrow Hill is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England.It is on a chalk ridge, aligned north-west to south-east, on the South Downs north of Shoreham-by-Sea.
The hillfort is 275 metres (902 ft) above sea level; there is an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar. [6] The natural summit of the hill is a short distance to the south-east and at 276.5m (907ft) above sea level, with a prominence of 114m, and is classified as a Hump (hill with a hundred metre or greater prominence).
Iron Age leaders ruled from fortified villages on 700 hilltops across Wales, an archaeologist says.
Perborough Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located at Compton in Berkshire. The site covers approximately 14 acres (5.7 ha), and lies on the chalky downs of West Berkshire. The site covers approximately 14 acres (5.7 ha), and lies on the chalky downs of West Berkshire.
Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hill fort on Battlesbury Hill near the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, South West England. Excavations and surveys at the site have uncovered various finds and archaeological evidence.