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The Wessex Hillforts Survey collected wide-ranging data on hillfort interiors in a three-year partnership between the former Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage and Oxford University.These defended enclosures, occupied from the end of the Bronze Age to the last few centuries before the Roman conquest, have long attracted archaeological interest and their function remains central to study of the Iron Age. ? 0000239186 00000 n
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Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. Exterior view of the De La Warr Pavilion from the south-east 2006. 0000020251 00000 n
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Unlike the early hilltop enclosures these forts were smaller, averaging 5-6ha (13 … The Wessex Hillforts Project: Extensive Survey of Hillfort Interiors in Central Southern England Payne, A., Cunliffe, B., Corney, M. English Heritage (2006) Abstract: The earthwork forts that crown many hills in Southern England are among the largest and most dramatic of the prehistoric features that still survive in our modern rural landscape. King's Cross, York Road, London. 0000232186 00000 n
The next stage is quite dramatic. THE WESSEX HILLFORTS PROJECT Collins, A E P 1947 ‘Excavations on Blewburton Hill, 1947’, Berks Archaeol J, 50, 4–29 Collins, A E P and F J 1959 ‘Excavations on Blewburton Hill, Berks, 1953’, Berks Archaeol J, 57, 52–73 Collis, J 1981 ‘A theoretical study of hill-forts’, in Guilbert, G (ed) Hill-fort Studies. 262 0 obj <>
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The communal effort and high degree of social organistation indicated by hillforts feeds debate about whether they were strongholds of Celtic chiefs, communal centres of population or temporary gathering places occupied seasonally or in times of unrest. 0000001821 00000 n
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Survey of the surrounding countryside revealed hillforts to be far from isolated features in the later prehistoric landscape.