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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | The internal banks and ditches are rectangular with rounded corners, very like the layout of Roman forts. This suggests that a Roman fort has been added to an earlier one. |
| Posted Comments: RD Boulby
(2004-04-04) | Conquered by the Romans probably in late-AD 43, Old Sodbury hillfort was an important centre for the Dobunii Kingdom, a Celtic tribe that had occupied the area since the final centuries BC. The original fort is probably Iron Age in origin and founded in 500-750 BC. |
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