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    Wapley Hill is an Iron Age hill fort in Herefordshire, England, 3 km south-east of Presteigne. Wapley Hill stands in mixed woodland on a west-facing escarpment...
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    west of Leominster. Within the parish is the site of the Iron Age hill fort of Wapley Hill. Staunton derives from the Old English 'stān' with 'tūn' meaning"farmstead...
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  • Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk...
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    Liddington Castle (category Hill forts in Wiltshire)
    archaeologists who dug it as a ritual shaft. Similar shafts have been recorded at Wapley Hill in Herefordshire and Cadbury Castle in Devon. The excavation also suggested...
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    Mount Caburn (category Hill forts in East Sussex)
    River Ouse. On the summit of Caburn are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. The hill fort has been repeatedly excavated, by Augustus Pitt Rivers from...
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    Maiden Castle, Dorset (category Hill forts in Dorset)
    6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age...
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    the hill's summit is the Iron Age hill fort of Walbury Camp, whilst the flanks of the hill lie within the Inkpen and Walbury Hills SSSI. The hill is one...
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    Highdown Hill is a hill in the South Downs, with a height of 81 metres (266 ft). The summit of the hill and its western slopes lie in the parish of Ferring...
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    Mam Tor (category Hill forts in Derbyshire)
    Mam Tor is a 517 m (1,696 ft) hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips...
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    Lewesdon Hill is a hill near Broadwindsor in west Dorset, England. With a maximum elevation of 279 m (915 ft), it is the highest point in Dorset. The hill is...
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