Info Of An Atlas Of Hillforts Inwards Britain Together With Ireland

[First posted inward spataculartreasures ix July 2013, updated xiv September 2019]

An Atlas of Hillforts inward United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with Ireland

The Atlas of Hillforts of United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with Republic of Ireland was produced equally component subdivision of a iv yr collaborative projection betwixt archaeologists at the University of Edinburgh together with the University of Oxford, assisted yesteryear colleagues at University College Cork for Ireland.  The projection was funded yesteryear the Arts together with Humanities Research Council (Grant Ref: AH/J004499/1) together with was led yesteryear Professor Gary Lock (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford) together with Professor Ian Ralston (Abercromby Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh).  Partners included English linguistic communication Heritage (now Historic England), Historic Environment Scotland peculiarly the sometime Royal Commission on the Ancient together with Historical Monuments of Scotland, The Royal Commission on the Ancient together with Historic Monuments of Wales together with Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland).

The atlas contains information on 4,147 archaeological sites considered to hold upward hillforts or possible hillforts spread across England, The Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Northern Republic of Ireland together with the Republic of Ireland.  Three criteria were used to define the archaeological sites that were included inward the atlas:

1) topographic seat - sites which occupy a prominent/focal seat inward the landscape;

2) scale of enclosing industrial plant - sites alongside enclosing industrial plant which are designed to impress;

3) size of enclosed expanse - sites alongside enclosing industrial plant that enclose an expanse > 0.2 hectares. 

The information presented inward the atlas is a snapshot taken betwixt 2012 together with Oct 2016 together with at the 2d in that place is no provision for updating.  Up to appointment information on the archaeological sites included inward the atlas tin hold upward obtained yesteryear consulting the appropriate HER/NMR (see https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/assets/resources.html).  You are welcome to download information presented inward the atlas to brand occupation of it inward your ain research.  The online version of the Atlas of Hillforts of United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with Republic of Ireland was built yesteryear John Pouncett (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford).

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The online version of the Atlas of Hillforts of United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with Ireland should hold upward cited as:

Lock, G. together with Ralston, I. 2017.  Atlas of Hillforts of United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with Ireland. [ONLINE] Available at: https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk

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