Hillfort 4

A website talking of hillforts

Sadly tribal rulers use inventions to fight wars,
Or use power to take inventions, local wealth, harming societies,
Many hillforts were built in the Bronze-Age,
Built on top of hills, with walls, built by piling dirt to hold off attacks,
Holding armies, or people inside,

Probably a reaction by ruling-class V free creative ordinary people,
Fear they shall lose prominent posts in this change, & the era's increased cropping,
So use forts to control populaces, extract the riches,
And build huge wealthy graves commemorating leader's power,

It can be extrapolated raiders,
Or these hillfort rulers killed tribes, on mass, using their power,
Horsed raiders stole crops, in later Bronze Age,
But earlier, just people,
In arms races, fearing eachother,
Ruling-classes encouraged raids of other areas, in mass slaughter, slave collecting,
To gain undemocratically, their wealth,

There are some hillforts today which have half of them in the sea,
The remains of it, half have fallen in the sea,
And the other half sit there, as rocks in a O half carve,
Just the walls, left,
Like that in W Ireland,

And some still sit on peninsulas in Spain overlooking the sea,
And some in Scotland are over 1800 feet above sea level,
With also some hillforts on Skye, and other isles,
So on the most mountainous isle in Britain

In Dingle Bay also on the E coast,
There are slopes of fields, of sheep, or something.
That go up from the water, and sometimes rocky coasts,
And are about over 45 degrees, and go up for over a KM, and maybe longer,

Some hillforts, were for trading, holding cows, lacking defensive qualities,
Some, last decades,
But all end up lonely grass covered, barren, forgotten during the age, as new wars,
Leaderships came,
Like one above Wessex's Uffington Horse 1000-1600BC,
Patterns made by cutting chalk hill's green to impress people,

Above the horse, is a hillfort overlooking a plain, on the other side,
But facing towards the side where the horse faces, with it's lines,
I have seen the horse,
And it is able to be seen from the valley below, on one side,
It is 110 metres long and can also be seen from above,
But of course from the hill itself, just below the hillfort is just white lines,

Below the horse are small mounds, then some less of plains, more low and hill lands,
Of grass, and emptier vales, with some less crops, of the plain's side,
And this would have been seen by hillfort members,
Some say it was made to show whose territory it was,
The horse was seen as a good image across the Cs, and kept around,

Below it, trade went down paths soft brown, trackways,
2-5 metres wide, in between hedges,
And maybe meet people on way, passing them,
Holes in the road, sometimes livestock, armies, are walked along it,
In Poland, there were some timber framed forts by the farming,

By 500BC hillforts the centre of Iron AGe culture from Wales to Spain

In 514BC it sent a huge army into Scythia across the Danube River, to attack raiders,
Whose Ukraine-Caucasus warriors just retreated so no battle was fought,
In tactical genius,

Or just clever good working thoughts, there,
But some sources claim that the Persians fought a battle in Romania,
Attacking a hillfort here in Romania,
With trade posts placed

Romans catapulting hillforts to ruin, the centres of their enemies,
And taking hills,
& sending troops down to strike at valleys,

Gaul's allies led by Vercingetorix's Arverni tribe, are outfoxed by legions,
Legions who had won initially, by marching into Central France,
Then splitting the tribes, on each side,
Then allying with some, & then claiming it had been conquered,
Then some Roman merchants were killed,
& the leader I mentioned above then started his revolt,
With him then beaten after the Roman armies, went very fast,
Plundering & punishing, & porting,

And then in the end the Romans, forced the Gauls, to be pushed to hillforts,
And saw scorched Earth polices, by the Celts, try & ruin the Romans by that,
Some Celtic tribes stopped burning their towns,
As they felt they were too much to win the war,
So the Celtic alliance had to defend that tribes fort,
And started to win in some cases, in greatness,

Romans try & take a majorly important hillfort,
Including the huge capital of a tribe, on a high hill on a natural plateau,
Today just fields, & forest,
With sheer drops, down, & no chances of a good siege, & impossible to take,
But fail to take some, so the Romans, lost a battle,
& the Gauls, all revolted & united again,

But just a bit later the Gauls, were pushed to the N, fearing a proper battle,
But wanting to make the Romans follow them & then have them in the N,
So they can crush the Roman army,
And then win the war that way,
But the Romans, liked this as they could besiege the Gauls,
In their fort laying traps round a fort,

And a relief force of 250,000 about to come & save him, was unable to be coordinated,
So was unable to break through the fort that surrounded the Celtic fort,
That had been built by Romans,
So Celts surrounded by Romans, were unable to make the attacks on Rome, good,

So when they attacked Romans, they saw a small attack,
But unable to take the Romans,
Almost succeeding when finally sending Gaulish forces out of the fort, at the Romans,
So the Romans, sent in their final reserve forces, & saw the leaders of the force used,
And saw the army of the Gauls, then run away,
Enraged & scared of the leaders of the Romans,

And the Romans, got them to charge from crow's-view grassy hillforts,
And crush them that way,
With some forces pushed into rivers, in other battles,
With Celt's squawking god image ravens, that litter fields,
Eating carcasses,
And their blood, red, black feathers,
The final conquest of this large element of the empire,

Over million dead Gaulish people, & troops, with many tribes massacred, & conquered,
A quarter of the population,
And entire cities, like some of 40/70,000 entirely massacred, by the aimed for emperor,
Like in 56BC, the conquest of Brittany's Veneti,
Which led the continent-Brit/Wessex trade,
Who traditionally buy slaves/grain, in Britain, which is sold for wine,
They saw legionary ships destroy it's fleet,
Causing Britons to start trading mainly via the SE,

Some legions even raid Britain,
As it was felt that they may be trading with & helping the Gaulish,
And made S of flowing Thames, tribes, clients,
Whose river saw a reasonably wide estuary, of few isles, but wide,

Whose capitals mint typical Celtic coins, unlike most of the rival 10s of Brit tribal nations,
Which themselves are split to regions,
Their, capitals were in hillforts normally, just like the other tribes though,
Coins, still based on the look, of coins from Ancient Greece,
& it's horse designs, of kings,

Roundhouses' smoky straw roofs, sitting in the middle of hillforts with other homes,
And grain storage units just by,
And the hillforts with wood, & ramparts surrounding the centre, of the fort,
Looking down from the mounds on the outside of the forts, or at times,
Large wood, platforms, off wood walls,
At the scenery below, of enemy forces & people fleeing to the safety of the forts,

Standing in doorway, darkens the room, it's got plaided, robe shirt men,
Women sitting on the dirt floor,
Talking, working, round the fire,
Range few to over 10metre diameters,

Border Traprain Law hillfort, 100s traders on this notable hill, for locals, of pre-200BC,
Other bases are nearby, with some people, like much of the country,
Also fishing is common,
& trading for instance Shetland minerals, up & down parts of the coasts,
Dark-blue long surface, narrow, sometimes Britain-shaped,
Or other 100s of Lochs, look blue-green far off in the interior,

In the era when Rome led Britain to after Ireland saw it's main states still have hillforts as centres of many lands.

Some Slavic forces had some hillforts. Like in Poland

Batan, to the N of Luzon is the most N of the Philippines isles,
And it is more Taiwanese than Filipino,

It was seen by Dutch in the 17thC,
Who saw people who lived off sugar cane & lived in fortified mountains,
& used gold as coins,
And had traded with Chinese for a few Cs, sending in ceramics,
The locals Ivatans stayed in hillforts till past 1780s Spanish claims, & to then the 1790s,
When Spain forced them into the low lands, causing fatigue deaths for some,
With them made to dress Filipino,
Which made them among the most anti-Spanish, for over a C,

The Maori in the 19th C, accept if they can keep their land rites, they will be a British protectorate,
But new British bases saw a 40/60s war,
Where 2250Maoris die, & 600 Brits.
With Maori hillforts above trees, with high palisades protecting well,
And winning some battles,
Even holding off larger British forces at times,

Many hillforts today are hisrtorically respected monuments, but some lie covered in gerass. One person said there may be many more that people just have not recognised to be them.

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