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Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland

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990: 995: 933: 84:", also visited sites and contributed information and photographs to the atlas. The researchers noted that despite the conventional name "hillforts", under their definition, many are "not on hills and are not really forts". They included sites that are now only visible through 519: 1036: 974: 240: 1060: 73: 65:. On its launch in 2017 the atlas had 4,147 entries, which the researchers believe to be all of the extant hillforts in Britain and Ireland. A printed 1095: 1085: 1029: 319: 525: 535: 92: 157: 761: 566: 433: 1090: 549: 1022: 967: 179: 1065: 639: 540: 960: 530: 515: 1070: 736: 77: 292: 545: 1075: 1080: 716: 619: 787: 711: 706: 686: 676: 644: 426: 378: 54: 46: 463: 741: 488: 478: 132: 731: 726: 507: 127: 50: 473: 746: 696: 671: 766: 681: 498: 419: 58: 817: 483: 874: 327: 122: 1006: 944: 1055: 797: 756: 691: 890: 661: 468: 81: 26: 989: 853: 701: 634: 629: 352: 1049: 807: 187: 42: 822: 458: 106: 72:
The data was collated from existing catalogues of archaeological sites such as the
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online database
hillforts
Bronze Age
Iron Age
British Isles
University of Edinburgh
University of Oxford
University College Cork
Ian Ralston
Gary Lock
atlas
National Monuments Records
historic environment records
citizen scientists
cropmarks
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Esri's
ArcGIS
web map application
Wikimedia UK
Knowledge (XXG)
List of hillforts
Hillforts in Britain
Hillforts in Scotland



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