hillfort

/ ˈhɪlˌfɔːt /

noun

1. archaeol a hilltop fortified with ramparts and ditches, dating from the second millennium bc

Example Sentences

At the western end of the Dhekelia area this occupation is represented in a significant archaeological landscape comprising a large Bronze Age defended hilltop settlement at Kokkinokremnos and an adjacent Iron Age hillfort at Vikla, both sitting above the Roman harbour town of Koutsopetria: all these protected sites are subject to recent research excavations.

From Science Daily

A team of archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit hoped to establish what activities took place in the hillfort, which is near Wells-next-the-Sea.

From BBC

The discovery that an Iron Age hillfort was probably not used as a permanent settlement is to feature on BBC Two's Digging for Britain.

From BBC

Mr Driver said a surge of new community projects at hillfort sites in Cardiff, the Clwydian Range and near Aberystwyth in Ceredigion was "waking up hillforts that have long lain unexcavated and telling us incredible new facts about them".

From BBC

The largest hillfort in Wales is a little-known ancient monument, Garn Goch, on a hill above the Tywi Valley in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, also known as the Brecon Beacons.

From BBC