Inevitably, the first question anyone compiling such a resource will encounter is the definition of a hillfort – not so easy to say, it turns out, because ‘hillforts’ are very varied in form, scale, and size. Between 20, a team from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, and Cork set out to draw up an atlas of hillforts (see ‘Further reading’ on p.42), which now exists as an open-access dataset complementing a 500-page monograph, packed with distribution maps with commentaries largely written by Gary Lock and Ian Ralston. At least we now know where they were built. Numerous as they are, they are not well understood – to quote a recently drafted research framework, the basic questions about hillforts – built by whom, when, and why – remain to be answered. It is home to an Iron Age promontory fort. Craig yr Aderyn (‘Bird’s Rock’) is a hill rising 258m above sea level near Llanfihangel-y-Pennant in Gwynedd.
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