Wittenham Clumps

Wittenham Clumps are a pair of wooded chalk hills in the Thames Valley, in the civil parish of Little Wittenham, in the historic county of Berkshire, although since 1974 administered as part of South Oxfordshire district [1]. The higher of the two, Round Hill, is 390 feet above sea-level [1]. The 350-foot Castle Hill is about 380 yards south-east and was the site of an Iron Age hill fort [1]. The earliest earthworks date to the late Bronze Age [1]. More banks and ditches were added during the early Iron Age [1]. Excavation has revealed that the Iron Age inhabitants caught fish and wild boar as well as herding cattle and sheep [1]. There is also evidence of barley and wheat cultivation [1]. The fort appears to have been abandoned by the late Iron Age, the next occupants being Romans [1].