Barbury Castle
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Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 5.5 miles south of Swindon.
Aerial view of Barbury Castle
Steep earthworks, looking northwards
Aerial view
Barbury Castle showing the scale of the present-day structure
British Iron Age
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The Iron Age in Great Britain spanned from c. 800 BC until the Roman period in the 1st century AD. It followed the British Bronze Age and was marked by the use of iron for tools and weapons. The Iron
Barbury Castle
…site spans two civil parishes: Ogbourne St Andrew (to the south, in Wiltshire) and Wroughton (in the Borough of Swindon). Hillforts date from the late Iron Age. Barbury was in use during the Roman occupation of the area, and archaeological investigations have shown evidence of a number of buildings, indicating…
The Battersea Shield, 4th–1st centuries BC
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The Snettisham Torc
Helmet decoration