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The cairns and Megalithic monuments continued into the Bronze age, and hill forts started to appear, such as Eildon Hill near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, which goes back to around 1000 BC and which accommodated several hundred houses on a fortified hilltop.
Category: Hill forts
Hill forts, which were the key centres of Estonian counties, were besieged and captured a number of times.
The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.
Vespasian marched from Noviomagus Reginorum ( Chichester ) to subdue the hostile Durotriges and Dumnonii tribes, captured twenty oppida ( towns, or more probably hill forts, including Hod Hill and Maiden Castle in Dorset ).
Colrain was home to four forts at this time: Fort Morrison ( also called " North Fort "), Fort Morris ( also called " South Fort "), Fort Lucas ( built near the town meeting house on Chandler Hill ), and Rev.
There were Iron Age and medieval castles and forts in Torrington, located on the Castle Hill.
Hill forts from the early Iron Age exist locally at Botany Hill to the south of the town, and at " Caesar's Camp " to the north.
Category: Hill forts in Derbyshire
Category: Hill forts in Wales
Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC, and were in use in many Celtic areas of central and western Europe until the Roman conquest.
Hill forts were the exception, and were the home of up to 1, 000 people.
Hill forts were frequently occupied by conquering armies, but on other occasions the forts were destroyed, the local people forcibly evicted, and the forts left derelict.
Hill forts with strong walls are often located beside old trade routes and have an offensive character, whereas others are reclusive and were weakly fortified, probably only for hiding during raids.
Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age.
Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC.
Hill forts may have become important as centres of trade.
Category: Hill forts in Dorset
In the fall of 1852, a surveying party under the command of Captain Robert Chilton, 1st U. S. Dragoons, selected the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers as a site for one of these forts.
Category: Hill forts in Wiltshire

Hill and began
In 1992 a feminist group began a nationwide fundraising campaign and then obtained matching state funds to endow a professorship at the University of Oklahoma Law School in honor of Hill.
Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government began to orchestrate Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colour ceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display.
During Hoover's 1907 visit to Australia, Jim Lyster relocated from Gwalia to Broken Hill and began experiments which resulted in the " Lyster Process ", which enabled the Zinc Corporation to operate the world's first selective or differential flotation plant, from September 1912.
As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.
As his last great act he began the construction of a temple in honour of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, partially funded by plunder seized from the Sabines.
It began on the premises of the presidential palace, where political figures and dignitaries paid their respects ; his coffin was then taken to a mosque before being moved to the royal mausoleum on Maranjan Hill.
However, the history of the Roman Kingdom began with the city's founding, traditionally dated to 753 BC with settlements around the Palatine Hill along the river Tiber in Central Italy, and ended with the overthrow of the kings and the establishment of the Republic in about 509 BC.
In 753 BC, Romulus began building the city upon the Palatine Hill.
In the summer of 1962 Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill who had been subletting the Primrose Hill flat with her husband.
According to Roman mythology, when Romulus and Remus founded Rome, they did so on the Palatine Hill according to Etruscan ritual ; that is, they began with a pomerium or sacred ditch.
Boer guns began shelling the British camp from the summit of Talana Hill at dawn on 20 October.
Without the forces necessary for a counter-offensive south of the Gheluvelt plateau towards Kemmel Hill, Rupprecht began to plan for a slow withdrawal from the Ypres salient, even at the risk of uncovering German positions further north and the Belgian coast.
From the mid-17th century, stagecoaches began to pass through Slough and Salt Hill, which became locations for the second stage to change horses on the journey out from London.
King of the Hill began in 1997 ; Family Guy and Futurama began in 1999 and were canceled in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
During this period, Hill began to work for himself for the first time.
Scotland Yard is a pop rock group from Los Angeles, California: Scotland Yard began when Chris Hill began demoing songs in 1989 for a female fronted new wave pop group.
He was schooled by a governess until the age of eleven, when he began at Fir Lodge Preparatory School in West Hill, Dulwich, in south east London.
Again in May 1819 he came to the Hill of Ooty and began the construction of his bungalow at Dimbhatti ( near Kotagiri ), the first European dwelling on the hills.
Archers of Loaf, Squirrel Nut Zippers, James Taylor, George Hamilton IV, Southern Culture on the Skids, Superchunk, Polvo and Ben Folds Five are among the notable musical acts whose careers began in Chapel Hill.
After beginning the season strong with a 13 4 record, the Orlando Magic began to suffer in the standings as the result of multiple losses, due in large part to the injuries of Tony Battie, Keyon Dooling, and Grant Hill.
1995 was a disappointing season for Hill: some of the Williams team had been frustrated with his performances and Frank Williams began to consider bringing in Heinz-Harald Frentzen to replace him.
It was not until the end of the 19th century that Muswell Hill began to be developed more densely from a collection of country houses to the contemporary London suburb it is today.

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