Meanings of hillfort in English

Together they made their way through the hillfort and out the southern gate.

Pasha ran toward the hillfort with a little whimper of distress.

The name hillfort, of course, suggests the enclosures were built for a military purpose.

The wolf dog was at the hillfort with Cluff Drybannock.

But if warfare at the time meant skirmishes, not sieges, why build a hillfort at all?

It would be very difficult for a group to defend a hillfort This adds to their mystery.

Yet as extraordinary as it is, Penycloddiau is hardly the only hillfort in this area -or in Britain.

Only that not long ago, this place was surely no monastery, but a hillfort, and one well made to fight off foes.

Still, the idea that an organised group would bring a cartload of stones up to an enemy hillfort seems a little absurd.

The rock art is part of a prehistoric landscape of burial cairns and a hillfort with views of the Simonside Hills beyond.

Afterwards, head up to the nearby Iron Age hillfort at Bolt Tail for spectacular sunsets and the chance to spot dolphins and porpoises.

In a separate project, archaeologists in Wales have been working to uncover the secrets of an ancient coastal hillfort before it falls into the sea.

In fact, storage pits have been found in a number of hillforts.

At about the same time, hillforts begin to be constructed in earnest.

Hillforts also may have doubled as settlements -though not necessarily year-round

The Silurians had little villages and hillforts -nothinglike this.