Stoning and Fire' at hillfort entrances of southern Britain

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ID3919635
AutoresMichael Avery (Queen's University Belfast, autor correspondente)
Ano1986
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas216-230
Data de publicação1986-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1986.9979999
OpenAlexW2089532918
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas13

Hillfort defences of southern Britain divide into the wall‐and‐fill forts of the Hallstatt period and the Low Dump and High Dump forts of the La Tene period. The earlier entrances tend to be short, narrow and timber‐lined, with gate‐houses: like wall‐and‐fill forts, they responded to tactics of attack with sword, spear and axe, designed to batter in the gate. They protected the aristocratic heirs of the heroic warrior society of the Later Bronze Age. The later entrances, at the great bi‐and tri‐vallate hillforts of Wessex and the Welsh Marches, tend to be long and stone‐lined, with projecting passages instead of gate‐houses. They developed in response to specialised tactics of attack by 'stoning and fire' and the threat of organised mass armies. Their hillforts were not urban settlements, but hill‐top refuges into which whole communities huddled in terror from the ravaging armies of neighbouring clans

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