"There are no written records for [the Iron Age], so it's only archaeology that tells us what was going on." But standing on one of the thousand-year-old ramparts dotted with volunteers in their ...

Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest and most complex Iron Age hill forts in Europe, and has been the site of numerous archaeological excavations over the years ...

These banks, known as ramparts, are built out of chalk, dug from the ditches down here, which were much deeper in the Iron Age. And, of course, there were no mechanical diggers back then ...

Iron Age hillforts represent an astounding communal ... The fort covers 5.8 hectares with up to five lines of ramparts over 8 metres high but dense woodland makes it impossible to appreciate ...

"There are no written records for [the Iron Age], so it's only archaeology that tells us what was going on." But standing on one of the thousand-year-old ramparts dotted with volunteers in their ...

Unlike typical Iron Age burials, which were usually in a supine ... much of what is now Dorset and Somerset. The fort's vast ramparts and defensive structures suggest that it was a place of ...