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Hilltops ringed with ramparts and ditches, built for defence and display.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Fortified city
Niger–Benue hillfort tradition (c. 1300–1900 CE; peak 16th–18th c) · Gbagyi / Hausa (Kamberi hill peoples) / Fulani pressures
Inselberg hill fort above Kagara plain with laterite terraces 2 m high, boulder walls (2.1 km) and narrow cleft gates, iron smelting terraces and shrines of Gunnu hill peoples flee...
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Bronze Age to Medieval · Votadini
Traprain Law Hillfort at East Lothian, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age to Medieval earthwork of the Votadini tradition, built c. 1000 BCE for phonolite plug hillfort with roman hoard.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age · British Iron Age
Cadbury Castle Somerset Camelot at Somerset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the British Iron Age tradition, built c. 1000 BCE for camelot-identified hillfort 4 ramparts.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Danebury Hillfort — Outer Entrance Hornwork in England, Hampshire, Stockbridge, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attribu…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland / Late Woodland debated · Hopewell tradition or Fort Ancient tradition
Hilltop stone-walled enclosure 42 ha above Paint Creek; Hopewell vs Fort Ancient debate.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Viking Age (c.980–1000 CE, Harald Bluetooth) · Danish Viking Age
Archetypal Viking ring fortress west of Slagelse on Zealand, 136.5 m diameter circular earthwork with four cardinal gates, internal quadrants with 16 longhouses and outer bailey, built c.980 under…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hillfort
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Kurgan Ton Hillfort in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Hillfort
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Park Hillfort in Fezzan, Libya is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) hillfort attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Hillfort
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Tre Camp in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) hillfort attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hillfort
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Source Hillfort in Oruro, Bolivia is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) hillfort attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Hillfort
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Red-Grey Hill Fort in Fezzan, Libya is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) hillfort attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hillfort
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Nahal Well Hillfort in Fars Province, Iran is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) hillfort attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Hillfort
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Well Hillfort in Fezzan, Libya is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hillfort
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Salina Hillfort in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Early Iron Age to Viking Age (c.300 BCE–1100 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age / Viking Age
Largest hillfort in Scandinavia at 1.2 km² plateau fortified by 2 km limestone wall across the narrow neck of a 67 m high limestone plateau.
🇷🇺 Russia · Hillfort
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Mesa Verde Cold Storage Pit South in South Siberia, Russia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Great Moravian (9th–early 10th century) · Great Moravian Slavic
Great Moravian church and settlement complex on Sady hill (210 m) above Morava — cruciform church with narthex (c.830), cemetery 86 graves with gold earrings, and adjoining settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (800 BCE–43 CE), over Neolithic causewayed enclosure · Durotriges (British Iron Age)
Massive Iron Age hillfort enclosing 47 acres on a chalk ridge south of Dorchester, developed from a Neolithic causewayed enclosure (c. 3350 BCE) into a multivallate fort with complex entrances by c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age (600 BCE–43 CE) · Durotriges
Dorset's type-site excavated by Wheeler 1934–37, war cemetery 52 burials from Vespasian's 43 CE siege, Neolithic causewayed enclosure underlying.
🇫🇷 France · Earthwork
Hallstatt D (550–450 BCE) · Hallstatt Celtic (Vix princess)
Châtillonnais hillfort famous for Vix princess tomb 1953, largest Greek bronze krater (1100 L), gold torc 480 g, excavated by Joffroy.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age (200 BCE–100 CE) · Ordovices
Mountain-top hut-village hillfort on Yr Eifl summit, intact curtain wall to chest height, excavated 1906/1956, views to Snowdonia and Ireland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Neolithic to Iron Age (4000 BCE–400 BCE) · Neolithic miners / Iron Age
Cissbury Ring in West Sussex, South Downs, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Iron Age (4000 BCE–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic miners / Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age (800 BCE–43 CE) · Cornovii
Shropshire's most spectacular hillfort excavated by Varley 1939–40 atop hill with 3-circuit ramparts and ritual pits, view over Welsh Marches.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Hillfort
Celtic Late La Tène (2nd century BCE–1st century BCE) · Celtic (Eastern La Tène)
Eastern Celtic oppidum at Zemplín on a low hill above the Bodrog at the Slovak-Hungarian border, with earth-timber ramparts enclosing 12 ha, excavated by B. Benadik.
