Yeavering Bell

The largest Iron Age hillfort in northern England, enclosing approximately 4.9 hectares atop a twin-peaked hill at 353 metres in the Cheviot Hills, Northumberland. The summit is encircled by a stone rampart originally 2.5 metres high and over 3 metres thick, with four entrances including one defended by a guard-house. Platforms of more than 100 timber-built roundhouses and an inner rock-cut fort have been identified within the walls. A tribal centre of the Celtic Votadini people, known in Brythonic as Din Gefron, it was occupied from around 800 BC well into the Roman period, as evidenced by pottery and coins found on site.