Category Archives: Hillforts

Ostensibly what the word itself implies: ‘a fort on a hill’ – though in more recent years the archaeological notion of them as purely defensive fortresses has subsided. Hillforts are generally huge monuments in the landscape, almost always at the top, or near the top, of what seem to have been deemed pretty impregnable places. Entire settlements existed within some hillforts, most of which came into existence in the Iron Age.