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hillforts (noun): Archaeological sites consisting of fortified settlements located on hilltops or elevated areas, often from ancient or medieval periods
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There are several hillforts near town.
Two hillforts of national importance are nearby.
The defining characteristic of hillforts is an inbuilt defensive nature.
Hillforts are the same as ringforts.
Raftery suggests that perhaps some hillforts were used as places of last refuge.
Hillforts are interpreted as central places.
Their sites are identified by construction details of their hillforts and metalwork artefacts.
Hillforts and tumuli are remains of the Illyrians.
In times of attack the local populace may have sought refuge within the hillforts.
It is one of numerous hillforts found across southern Britain.
Trade with Ancient Greek colonies was less intensive than on other hillforts of forest steppe.
About a third of all Irish hillforts have mounds or cairns within them.
The camp is recorded on the Atlas of Hillforts.
This is a list of hillforts in Wales.
Most hillforts were abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age.
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In the Iron Age there were hillforts up there.
Excavations of Lusatian hillforts document the substantial development of trade and agriculture at that period.
The reason for why British Iron Age peoples built hillforts is still under dispute.
Eleven Iron Age hillforts or promontory forts are scheduled.
Maiden Castle is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe.
This a list of hillforts on the Isle of Man.
Hillforts get more common from Iron Age forward.
Iron Age hillforts.
Over twenty hillforts were established in the area during the Iron Age.
Now a country park, it was the most important of three hillforts in the downs.
Many hillforts were built in the Iron Ages.
Older place names containing the element sten / stein were usually hillforts.
Hillforts continued to be built during the British Iron Age.
The culture was predominantly nomadic, with some agriculture practiced near rivers and a few hillforts.
Ancient hillforts in Finland.
It is, however, one of the most spectacular Iron Age hillforts in Britain.
There are several hillforts identified, known as gradina or gomila.
All in all, there are about 20 hillforts on Öland.
Many of Ireland 's hillforts are promontory forts on the coasts.
At least 50 sites of Iron Age settlements and 40 hillforts are known from Karelia.
Based on the morphology of hillforts, Raftery estimates that there are forty hillforts in Ireland.
More recently, in 2007, a topographic survey was carried out for the Heather and Hillforts Project.
However, several Gallaecian hillforts continued to be inhabited until the 5th century AD.
However, hillforts were built also in Poland and further east, until the Middle Ages.
There are also other ancient remains, the two hillforts Borgberget and Hjässaborgen.
However, hillforts are of communal rather than single-family importance.
The main centres of Metsepole were located at the hillforts in Skulte, Liepupe and Limbaži.
By about 350 BC many hillforts went out of use and the remaining ones were reinforced.
There are around 40 known hillforts in Ireland.
The hillforts were soon excavated by the Tyszkiewicz brothers and then by Władysław Syrokomla 1859.
In 1965, she was a founding member of the Hillforts Study Group, alongside Christopher Hawkes and others.
The remains of two prehistoric hillforts are present near Tullingesjön, Skansberget and Örnberget.
During the Hallstatt C period, hillforts became the dominant settlement type in the west of Hungary.
However some of the hillforts were still used in the 14th century.
