Wittenham Clumps

A pair of chalk hills in the Thames Valley featuring Castle Hill, an Iron Age hillfort with earliest earthworks from the Late Bronze Age. A large settlement at the foot of the hill housed several hundred people who farmed wheat, barley, and livestock. Excavations from 2019-2021 uncovered 15 Iron Age roundhouses, a vast Romano-British settlement, and thousands of finds including pottery, human skeletons, and spinning weights. The nearby Wittenham Sword (120 BC-AD 43) and an oval bronze shield were found in the adjacent River Isis.