Iron Age Hillforts in Britain and Beyond
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 December 2012
- ISBN 9780199695249
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 239x167x25 mm
- Weight 804 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 52 black and white in-text illustrations and 16 colour plates 0
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Short description:
Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe. Harding reviews the changing perceptions of hillforts and the future prospects for hillfort research, highlighting aspects of contemporary investigation and interpretation.
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Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe from the later Bronze Age. With such a range of variants represented, no single explanation of their function or social significance could satisfy all possible interpretations of their role. While they are conventionally viewed as defence settlements or regional centres controlled by a social elite, this role has been challenged in recent years, and instead hillforts are being considered primarily as expressions of social identity with strong ritual and cosmological associations. Current hillfort interpretations are in danger of reflecting contemporary social sensitivities more strongly than any recognizable Iron Age priorities, and the need for critical analysis of basic archaeological evidence is paramount.
Critically reviewing the evidence of hillforts in Britain, in the wider context of Ireland and continental Europe, the volume focuses on their structural features, chronology, landscape context, and their social, economic and symbolic functions, and is well illustrated throughout with site plans, reconstruction drawings, and photographs. Harding reviews the changing perceptions of hillforts and the future prospects for hillfort research, highlighting aspects of contemporary investigation and interpretation.
Harding is to be congratulated in providing a comprehensive review of hillforts.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Illustrations
Defining Issues
History of Hillfort Studies
Anatomy of Hillfort Enclosure
Inside and Outside of Hillforts
Hillforts in the Landscape
Chronology
Function 1: Defence
Function 2: Social, Economic, Ritual
Documentary Sources
Ethnographic Models
Conclusion: A Sense of Place
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
