IRON AGE
1500 / 800 BC - 43AD
The dating of the Iron Age is, like the other prehistorical periods, very conjectural. The most visible monuments associated with people of these times are the Hillforts of which several major sites are to be found in this area. The hillforts were large-scale constructions involving thousands of workers digging out the earthworks (many of which would have been originally much higher or deeper than the remains we see today) and moving huge tonnages of timber up onto the hilltops to construct pallisades or stockades. Hillforts suggest a powerful and well developed tribal society. It is beleived that the Decangi occupied this area and built many of them as the centres of their society and it is known that they had many community uses as well as military ones.
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Knucklas Hillfort ?Fron Goch EnclosuresCwmgilla EnclosureGlog Hill EnclosurePilleth CropmarkDiscoed CropmarkCwm Whitton EnclosureElvines Farm EnclosureNewton Farm EnclosureHell Peak Hillfort ?Lingen Hillfort ?Burfa Camp HillfortBenbow Wood MoundRowley Wood EnclosureLyonshall CropmarkWapley HillfortBucknell EnclosureHeartsease EnclosureCoxall Knoll HillfortDeerfold Pronomotory FortDeerfold Hillfort ?Brandon Camp HillfortCroft Ambrey HillfortPyon Wood HillfortMere Hill Pronomotory FortCombe Moor FigurineKington Spindle Whorl FindHindwell Valley SitesHinwell Valley SitesCastle Ring HillfortStaunton Enclosure
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