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- noun Alternative spelling of
hill-fort .
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Examples
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With snow forecast this week, stalking has intensified around Yeavering Bell in the fells above Wooler, an Iron Age hillfort whose name – middle English for "goat hill" – is evidence of the herd's antiquity.
Northumberland's Neolithic goats brought into modern world 2011
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On this stood Nordy Bank, a ring earthwork known as an Iron Age hillfort.
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Artor, raised in Roman ways as the anonymous ward of the Roman nobleman Ector, is now established as High King of Britain with his capital at the rebuilt hillfort of Cadbury.
The battle of Arfderydd or Arthuret Carla 2010
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Artor, raised in Roman ways as the anonymous ward of the Roman nobleman Ector, is now established as High King of Britain with his capital at the rebuilt hillfort of Cadbury.
Archive 2010-01-01 Carla 2010
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Artor, raised in Roman ways as the anonymous ward of the Roman nobleman Ector, is now established as High King of Britain with his capital at the rebuilt hillfort of Cadbury.
King Arthur: Warrior of the West, by MK Hume. Book review Carla 2010
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When they reach the hillfort they find the garrison slaughtered and Major Joubert missing, along with the Company record books.
Sharpe’s Peril. TV/DVD review. Carla 2008
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This only served to give the impassable Bramin a pretext for excluding him from the Residency, with a hint, that if his language continued to be of such an imprudent character, he might expect to be removed from Madras, and stationed at some hillfort or village among the mountains, where his medical knowledge would find full exercise in protecting himself and others from the unhealthiness of the climate.
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When they reach the hillfort they find the garrison slaughtered and Major Joubert missing, along with the Company record books.
Archive 2008-11-01 Carla 2008
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Cow Castle, a hillfort of Iron-Age date on Exmoor, is claimed to be a fairy stronghold, built to withstand dangerous earth spirits.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Cow Castle, a hillfort of Iron-Age date on Exmoor, is claimed to be a fairy stronghold, built to withstand dangerous earth spirits.
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