Pilsdon Pen

fort · 800 BC – 2100 AD

Pilsdon Pen (277 m above sea level) is a Cretaceous outcrop located in Dorset, South West England. It is the site of a multivallate Durotrigian hillfort dating to the Iron Age. Peter Gelling and Margaret Gelling of the University of Birmingham conducted excavations at the site in the 1960s.

Coordinates

50.80831, -2.83517

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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