{"product_id":"hill-forts-in-wiltshire-von-undefined","title":"Hill forts in Wiltshire","description":"\u003cp\u003eSource: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Barbury Castle, Battlesbury Camp, Bincknoll Castle, Bratton Castle, Casterley Camp, Castle Ditches, Chiselbury, Chisenbury Camp, Codford Circle, Ebsbury, Fosbury Camp, Grovely castle, Knook Castle, Liddington Castle, Little Woodbury, Membury Camp, Old Sarum, Ringsbury Camp, Scratchbury Camp, Sidbury Hill, Wiltshire, Vespasian's Camp, Whitesheet Hill, Yarnbury Castle. Excerpt: Scratchbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located on Scratchbury Hill, near the village and civil parish of Norton Bavant in Wiltshire. The fort covers an area of 37 acres (15 ha) and occupies the summit of the hill on the edge of Salisbury Plain, with its four-sided shape largely following the natural contours of the hill. The Iron Age hillfort dates to around 100 BC, but contains the remains of an earlier and smaller D-shaped enclosure or camp. The age of this earlier earthwork is currently subject to debate, and has been variously interpreted due to the inconclusive and incomplete nature of previous and differing excavation records; it may be early Iron Age dating to around 250 BC, but it has also been interpreted as being Bronze Age, dating to around 2000 BC. There are seven Tumuli located within the enclosure of the fort, which were excavated in the 19th Century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington. Finds from excavations at that time included for relics of bone, pottery, flint, brass, and amber jewellery, most of which can be seen today at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes. In addition other items of interest have been found in and around the site including Roman artefacts and neolithic flint and jade axe heads. The site is listed on Wiltshire Council's Sites and Monuments Record number ST94SW200, and is also a scheduled monument number SM10213. The hillfort falls within a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, designated as Scratchbury \u0026amp; Cotley Hills SSSI, which encompasses a total of 53.5 hectares (132 acres), being first SSSI notified in 1951. The name of the hill is likely to be derived from the words scratch, an old West Country word for the Devil; and bury, from the Old English word beorg, meaning a mound or hill, or sometimes a defense; although it could also be derived from burh, meaning a fortified town or a defended site. Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781158397655\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781158397655","offer_id":48851388662085,"sku":"9781158397655","price":15.19,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/58701ab6-d13b-4b62-bf6a-1df231e90339.jpg?v=1726374720","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/hill-forts-in-wiltshire-von-undefined","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}