🇦🇺 Australia · Hillfort
Sahara Kite V-Shaped Wall West
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sahara Kite V-Shaped Wall West in Pilbara, Australia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Bronze Age culture.
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🇦🇺 Australia · Hillfort
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sahara Kite V-Shaped Wall West in Pilbara, Australia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Bronze Age cairn; Iron Age hillfort · Welsh Bronze Age to Iron Age
Crug Hywel Hillfort and Cairn — Llangorse in Powys, Wales, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age cairn; Iron Age hillfort hillfort attributed to Welsh Bronze Age to Iron Age.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Viking ringfort beneath Odense's former castle at Nonnebakken (Nuns' Hill), 120 m diameter with 13 m wide turf rampart, discovered by C14 and magnetometry under Odinstårnet lot.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Hillfort
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Geoglyph Hill Figure North in Lapland, Sweden is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Largest Viking ring fortress (240 m outer diameter, 287 m with moat) on the Limfjord at Aggersborg, enclosing 48 longhouses (32 inside, 16 bailey) — garrison for ~1100 men.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Iron Age to 1239 CE (Latgalian principality) · Latgalian / Orthodox Rus'
Latgalian hillfort capital of the Orthodox principality of Jersika (Gercike) at Daugava's Tsargrad bend, a 75×100 m plateau 32 m above river with 12 m rampart, church foundations and 13th-c…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (550 BCE–100 CE) · Iron Age Wessex (Atrebates)
Type-site Iron Age hillfort (c. 550 BCE) covering 5 hectares on a chalk ridge north-west of Winchester.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Chûn Castle Hillfort — Penwith in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Dodman Point Cliff Fort in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age (c.500 BCE–100 CE) with Bronze Age cairn · Iron Age Welsh (Demetae) / Early Medieval
Rocky tor-top hillfort (343 m) above Newport — stone-rampart contour fort with hut circles on Mynydd Carningli.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Earthwork
Middle Ages (14th–17th c. with Iron Age hillfort predecessor) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Vytautas, Radvila family)
Asveja Lake Hillfort and Dubingiai Castle Complex in Vilnius County, Molėtai–Dubingiai, Asveja lake bridge area, Lithuania is a Middle Ages (14th–17th c.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Neolithic to Early Medieval (c.3400 BCE–1200 CE) · Neolithic → Iron Age La Tène → Early Medieval Gaelic
Ireland's paramount ceremonial landscape (142 ha) — Neolithic tomb, Lia Fáil kingship stone and Iron Age royal enclosure complex.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Buried city
Late Intermediate to Inca (c.1250 – 1430 CE) · Atacameno / Tastileño / Inca phase
Tastil's northern Quebrada del Toro–Rosario ridge extension — 400 m double wall, terraced fields and chullpa towers linking two valleys 3340 m.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Iron Age to Early Medieval (c.1000 BCE–1100 CE) · Iron Age Gaelic → Early Medieval Uí Néill
Donegal hilltop royal cashel (23.5 m diameter) on Greenan Mountain — northern Uí Néill kingship inauguration fort.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Iron Age (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Gallaeci Bracari, Celtic)
Castro de Santa Trega (Iron Age c.600–0 BCE, revived 100 BCE–100 CE) crowns the 341-m Santa Tegra mountain at the Miño–Atlantic confluence overlooking Portugal, a 7-hectare terraced castro-city of…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Earthwork
Viking Age to Middle Ages (9th–13th c.) · Semigallian / Livonian Order
Mežotne Hillfort on the Lielupe in Zemgale, Bauska Municipality, Mežotne on Lielupe, Latvia is a Viking Age to Middle Ages (9th–13th c.) Semigallian / Livonian Order site built 9th c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Eildon Hill North — Ancillary Rampart Enclosure in Scotland, Scottish Borders, Melrose, United Kingdom is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attribute…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hillfort
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Bala Seaton Hill Fort in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) hillfort attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Hillfort
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Dun Great Hill Fort in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Hillfort
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Tre-Fell Hillfort in Coquimbo, Chile is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hillfort
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Alignment Roxby Camp in Catamarca, Argentina is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hillfort attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Iron Age to 1286 CE (Semigallian) · Semigallian
Zemgale's greatest Semigallian hillfort complex at Tērvete — three hillforts (Wooden Castle Hill 35 m, Swede Hill, Kloster Hill) plus 1000+ barrow cemetery.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Hillfort
Early Medieval (9th–995 CE) · Slavník / Přemyslid Bohemia
Great Slavník hillfort capital at Libice (Libice nad Cidlinou) on Elbe–Cidlina confluence (25 ha inner 10 ha) with triple ramparts (7 m high, 40 m base), stone church and palace hall.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Hillfort
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Negev Kite Enclosure West in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Local Neolithic culture.