Credenhill Camp, Herefordshire

Excavations in 1963 established that the 50 acre hill-fort was permanently occupied from perhaps c. 390 B.C. until c. A.D. 75. Comparison of its four-post rectangular huts with other rectilinear buildings in Iron Age Britain is held to support the view that the oblong buildings at Credenhill were dwellings. On the basis of the density of such buildings at Croft Ambrey a population of about 4,000 is suggested for Credenhill, which is twice as large as any other Herefordshire hill-fort. Its size and centrality in an Iron Age region characterized by large univallate hill-forts, rectangular buildings and Group B1 stamped pottery makes it an obvious candidate for the role of capital of a territory that was broadly co-extensive with the modern county. It is suggested that the Iron Age inhabitants were the Decangi of Tacitus, conquered by Scapula in A.D. 48

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• Planned Hillfort Interiors

  Open Access•Graeme Guilbert, G C GUILBERT•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1975

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• Excavations at Mucking, Essex

  Open Access•M U Jones•The Antiquaries Journal•1974

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• Danebury, Hampshire

  Open Access•Barry Cunliffe•The Antiquaries Journal•1976

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• The Wrekin Hillfort Excavations 1973

  Clare Stanford, S C Stanford et al.•Archaeological Journal•1984

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• Post Built Structures at Danebury Hillfort an Analytical Search Method With Statistical Discussion

  Open Access•M Fletcher, Gary Lock•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•1984

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• Centralized Storage in Later Prehistoric Britain

  Open Access•Henry Gent•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1983

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• Guard Chambers’

  Open Access•Mark Bowden•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•2006

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• Is There Anybody Out There? A Reconsideration of the Environmental Evidence from the Breiddin Hillfort, Powys, Wales

  Open Access•Paul C Buckland, Mike Parker Pearson et al.•The Antiquaries Journal•2001

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• Gaulish Fortresses on the Coast of Brittany. (Ar Chastel Coz, The Old Castle, Finistere.)

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• Excavations at Sutton Walls, Herefordshire, 1948–1951

  Kathleen M Kenyon•Archaeological Journal•1953

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• Rainsborough, Northants, England

  Open Access•Michael Avery, J E G Sutton et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1968

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• Excavations at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire

  Open Access•Gerhard Bersu•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1940

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• Iron Currency Bars in Britain

  Open Access•Derek Allen•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1968

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• A Petrological Study of Certain Iron Age Pottery from Western England

  Open Access•D P S Peacock•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1969

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• The Excavation of a Durotrigian Farmstead near Tollard Royal in Cranbourne Chase, Southern England

  Open Access•G J Wainwright, Geoffrey Wainwright et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1969

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• Daggers of the Early Iron Age in Britain

  Open Access•E M Jope•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1961

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• An Iron Age Hill-Fort at Grimthorpe, Yorkshire, England

  Open Access•I M Stead, M Jarman et al.•Proceedings of the Prehistoric…•1969

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• Bagendon

  Joan Liversidge•American Journal of Archaeology•1963

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• The Excavation of the Iron Age Camp on Bredon Hill, Gloucestershire, 1935–1937

  Thalassa Cruso Hencken•Archaeological Journal•1938

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• Maiden Castle, Dorset

  R E M Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler•Maiden Castle, Dorset•1943

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• The twelfth-century castle at Ascot Doilly, Oxfordshire

  Open Access•E M Jope, Robert Threlfall et al.•The Antiquaries Journal•1959

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• Excavations at Winchester 1964

  Open Access•Martin Biddle•The Antiquaries Journal•1965

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• Excavations at Titterstone Clee Hill Camp, Shropshire, 1932

  Open Access•B H St J O’neil, B H St J O'Neil•The Antiquaries Journal•1934

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• I.— Prehistoric and Roman Settlements on Park Brow

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