Hunsbury Hill

Hunsbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort two miles south-west of the centre of the town of Northampton in the county of Northamptonshire [1]. It is also known as Danes Camp [1]. It is probable that defences were built at Hunsbury Hill between the 7th and 4th centuries BC [1]. Ironstone extraction began at the hill fort in about 1883 [1]. Many of the fort's internal features were destroyed, but the work revealed up to 300 pits which, according to the curator of Northampton Museum in 1887, contained "numerous artefacts that now comprise one of the finest collections ... of Prehistoric antiquities in England" [1]. The finds included iron weapons and tools, bronze brooches, pottery, glass and around 159 quern-stones [1]. All were given to the town's museum [1]. Hunsbury Hill fort is a designated Scheduled Monument [1].