Cadbury Castle, Somerset

Cadbury Castle is a Bronze and Iron Age hillfort in the parish of South Cadbury in the English county of Somerset [1]. The hillfort is formed by a 7.28 hectares plateau surrounded by ramparts on the surrounding slopes of the limestone Cadbury Hill [1]. The site has been excavated in the late 19th and early 20th century by James Bennett and Harold St George Gray [1]. More recent examination of the site was conducted in the 1960s by Leslie Alcock and since 1992 by the South Cadbury Environs Project [1]. These have revealed artifacts from human occupation and use from the Neolithic through the Bronze and Iron Ages [1]. Evidence of various buildings at the site has been unearthed, including a "Great Hall", round and rectangular house foundations, metalworking, and a possible sequence of small rectangular temples or shrines [1]. Bones recovered from the site have been radiocarbon dated to 3500 and 3300 BC [1]. Between 1010 and 1020, the hill was reoccupied for use as a temporary Saxon mint, standing in for that at Ilchester [1].