A Guide to Hillforts of Britain, An Aerial View: The Legacy of the Iron Age Dobunni Tribe

Seen from the air, the hillforts of western and central Britain reveal patterns that can be difficult to recognise from the ground. Nicholas Sharpe uses that perspective to explore fortified sites associated with the Iron Age Dobunni, whose territory covered parts of what are now Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and neighbouring areas.

Aerial photographs bring earthworks and their relationship with the surrounding landscape into view, while archaeological evidence helps place the sites in their historical setting. Their location, construction and development become clues to how these communities organised space and used fortified places before the Roman conquest.