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|  Posted 16-01-2004 at 13:34
Having just watched another excellent Time-Team programme on Discovery Channel, from Throckmorton in Worcestershire, it made me ponder on the latest guesstimates for GB population at the time period of Megalithic constructions? Time Team seemed to think that Iron Age sites were/are very common throughout the UK still - many very ambitious henges, roundhouses and site boundary ditches etc. These obviously required a fair amount of man-hours to construct, as well as all the other farming/community tasks being undertaken jointly. Was there a measurable rise in population from Megalith (Neolithic/Bronze age) to Iron Age?
All these civil engineering projects required such intensive labour commitments, albeit over a long period of time. By the time they finished building a large 'hill-fort' was the threat still there?
Puzzling.
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