Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire

Cleeve Hill, the highest point of the Cotswolds at 330 metres, hosts a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort dating from c. 500 BC, one of 35 hillforts along the Cotswold escarpment. Originally a single bank and ditch, a second ring was added two centuries later, with ramparts up to 9.1m wide and 2.5m high. A Bronze Age cross dyke predating the hillfort served as a territorial boundary that still marks modern parish lines. The Ring, a circular Romano-British enclosure of c. 50 metres diameter, was likely used for livestock. Human activity on Cleeve Common spans approximately 6,000 years.