Sutton Walls Hill Fort

Sutton Walls is an elongated ovoid Iron Age hillfort located 4 miles north of Hereford, England. Defenses began around 100 BC with a V-shaped ditch and internal bank reinforced with timber and stone, and by 25 AD a large wooden perimeter wall enclosed the settlement. Excavated by Dame Kathleen Kenyon (1948-1951), the site revealed a war cemetery of 24 skeletons, many decapitated, at the west entrance -- evidence of a Roman assault circa 48 AD under Publius Ostorius Scapula. The Romans subsequently occupied the fort until the 3rd century. It is also traditionally linked to King Offa of Mercia and the murder of King Aethelberht II in 794 AD.