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Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent - Papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017 (Paperback)
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Hillforts: Britain, Ireland and the Nearer Continent - Papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017 (Paperback)
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Funded by the AHRC, the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland
project (2012-2016) involved a team drawn from the Universities of
Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork which was responsible for compiling a
massive database, now freely available online at
https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac, on hillforts in Britain and Ireland.
This was underpinned by a major desk-based re-assessment of
accessible records. These twelve studies, presented at the end of
that exercise to a conference in Edinburgh, and contributed by team
members and colleagues, outline the background to and development
of the project (Gary Lock) and offer a preliminary assessment of
the online digital Atlas (John Pouncett) as well as presenting
initial research studies using Atlas data. The volume is profusely
illustrated with over 140 figures, including many new maps. Ian
Ralston provides a historical assessment of key stages in the
enumeration and mapping of these important monuments on both sides
of the Irish Sea. The hill- and promontory forts of England, Wales
and the Isle of Man are assessed by Ian Brown and those of Ireland
by James O’Driscoll, Alan Hawkes and William O’Brien. Stratford
Halliday’s study of the Scottish evidence focuses on the impact
of the application of the Atlas criteria to the records of forts in
that country. Simon Maddison deploys Percolation Analysis as an
example of the potential re-use of the Atlas data in analysing new
distributions; Jessica Murray presents a GIS-based approach to
hillfort settings and configurations. Syntheses on insular Early
Historic fortified settlements in northern Britain and Ireland, by
James O’Driscoll and Gordon Noble, and on hillforts in areas of
the nearer Continent are included. The latter comprise an overview
by Sophie Krausz on Iron Age fortifications in France and a
consideration of the south German records of hillforts and oppida
by Axel Posluschny, while Fernando Rodriguez del Cueto tackles the
north-western Spanish evidence.
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