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Stock Raising and the Origins of the Hill Fort on the South Downs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Richard Bradley
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The first part of this paper is a discussion of the basic pattern of land use on the South Downs from the Middle Bronze Age to the early Pre-Roman Iron Age. In the second part, the impact upon this pattern of a group of Bronze and Iron Age stock enclosures is considered, and it is argued that these developed directly into a number of small hill forts. A contemporary group of larger, early Iron Age, hill forts is also defined, and it appears that these too grew up upon an economic basis of stock raising. The social and cultural implications of these developments are discussed, and tentative contrasts are drawn with the nature of later hill forts in the region.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , March 1971 , pp. 8 - 29
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1971

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