Little Solsbury Hill | hillfort, scheduled ancient monument, iron age

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This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

Little Solsbury Hill is the site of an ancient hill fort, now owned by the National Trust. This was an Iron Age hill fort occupied between 300 BC and 100 BC, comprising a triangular area enclosed by a single univallate rampart, faced inside and out with well-built dry stone walls and infilled with rubble. The top of the hill was cleared down to the bedrock, then substantial huts were built with wattle and daub on a timber-frame. After a period of occupation, some of the huts were burnt down, the rampart was overthrown, and the site was abandoned, never to be reoccupied. This event is probably part of the Belgic invasion of Britain in the early part of the 1st century BC.

Solsbury Hill is a possible location of the Battle of Mount Badon, fought between the Britons (under the legendary King Arthur) and the Saxons c. 496, mentioned by the chroniclers Gildas and Nennius.

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list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1002...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solsbury_Hill
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Coordinates:   51°24'36"N   2°20'2"W

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