- A
defensive wall is a
fortification usually used to
protect a city, town or
other settlement from
potential aggressors. The
walls can
range from simple...
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circuit of
ramparts for
enclosure and defence. Example:
Solsbury Hill.
Bivallate : a
double circuit of
defensive earthworks. Example:
Battlesbury Camp...
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Bratton Castle (also
known as
Bratton Camp) is a
bivallate (two ramparts) Iron Age
built hill fort on
Bratton Down, at the
western edge of the Salisbury...
- flat to the south-east. The
altitude is 145
metres (476 ft). It is a
bivallate fort,
roughly oval, and
longest from
north to south; the area is about...
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There are two
major ringforts in Lissard. This
bivallate rath
covers 0.12 ha (0.30 acres). This
bivallate rath
covers 0.1 ha (0.25 acres) and has a souterrain...
- church. It is
Grade II* listed.
Bratton Camp
Hillfort Iron Age
Remains A
bivallate (two ramparted) hill fort
which comprises two
circuits of
ditch and bank...
-
hillforts in Cornwall. The
perimeter of
Castle Dore
consists of two
ditches (
bivallate). The
inner ditch is circular,
measuring 79
metres (259 ft) in diameter...
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Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age
bivallate hill fort on
Battlesbury Hill near the town of
Warminster in Wiltshire,
South West England. Excavations...
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Sidbury Hill, or
Sidbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age
bivallate hillfort on the
eastern edge of
Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The site is...
- of status. Therefore,[citation needed] a ring fort with two
ramparts (
bivallate) acts a
status symbol. The
rarity of
trivallate hillforts, such as that...
