A GUIDE TO HILLFORTS OF BRITAIN, AN AERIAL VIEW: The Legacy of the Iron Age Dobunni Tribe

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Explores the Iron Age hillforts of the Dobunni Tribe, examining their locations, structures, and significance. Puts forward a thesis to establish the frontiers of the tribal area using local topography and the location of hillforts. The Iron Age Dobunni Tribe occupied the modern day counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire in the centuries leading up to the Roman invasion of AD 43. The different types, classifications, and construction of hillforts are explained with aerial photographs illustrating these differences. Questions are answered on who were the Dobunni tribe and where they came from, what social structure existed and what were their religious beliefs. A chapter is given over to each county with individual hillforts discussed as to their location, structure, type and classification, myths, and excavated finds. For each hillfort there are locations on where to park, Ordnance Survey six figure map references, information on the length of walk in kilometers and a grading of the difficulty of the walk. Contains 164 color illustrations.