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29: 302:(98 ft). The south side of the hill fort and the southern half of the east side cross Bratton Down and here the twin ramparts are of roughly equal height and 30 metres (98 ft) in width. The northern half of the east side crosses the head of a re-entrant valley where the outer rampart and ditch have been largely destroyed by quarrying or landslips and the construction of a farm track. The short north east side straddles a narrow steep-sided ridge up which runs the Port Way. This passes through a possible original entrance, at which point the two ramparts have separated to form a small annexe, the outer ditch of which has, in places, been removed by quarrying. Quarrying has, in the past, also taken place within parts of the interior of the fort. 268:. The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture. The dominant view since the 1960s has been that the increasing use of iron led to social changes in Britain. Deposits of iron ore were located in different places to the tin and copper ore necessary to make bronze, and as a result trading patterns shifted and the old elites lost their economic and social status. Power passed into the hands of a new group of people. Archaeologist 52: 294: 45: 282: 360: 343:
containing two cremation urns, one placed within the other, and an interment of burnt bones. The large urn was broken in pieces; the small one, containing about three pints was better preserved and is contained within the Wiltshire Heritage Museum. It is described as particular in its shape, having a
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The hillfort was one of the sites excavated by Jeffery Whittaker prior to 1775, which is thought to have been one of the earliest archaeological excavations to have taken place in Wiltshire. The excavation was poorly documented but it is believed that Roman and Saxon coins were found in the vicinity
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believes that population increase still played a role and has stated " provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress burst out into open warfare. But I wouldn't see them as having been built because there was a state of war. They would be functional as defensive
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The short west side and the long north side occupy the crest of steep escarpment slopes and the ditches are stepped one above the other, the rampart slopes rising 5 metres (16 ft) and 6 metres (20 ft) above the base of the ditches. The defences here span a total width of 30 metres
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strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".
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escarpment. The hill fort comprises two circuits of ditch and bank which together enclose a pentagonal area of 9.3 hectares (23 acres).
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less than one foot high, which contained a circular cist with a crouched skeleton, but no relics. The skull is at Cambridge Museum.
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The Wessex Hillforts Project: Extensive Survey of Hillfort Interiors in Central Southern England
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is a sarson stone standing in a corner of the public recreation area adjacent to Bratton Castle
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Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the
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Payne, Andrew; Corney, Mark; Cunliffe, Barry (2007),
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The two banks along the southern side of the hillfort
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Earthworks at Bratton Castle
Bratton Castle is located in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
51°15′49″N 2°08′37″W / 51.2637°N 2.1435°W / 51.2637; -2.1435
William Cunnington
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Iron Age
hill fort
Salisbury Plain
Westbury White Horse
Hill fort
first millennium BC
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long barrow
bowl barrow
round barrow

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