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Liddington Castle, the Glossary

Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Liddington parish in the English county of Wiltshire, and a scheduled monument.^[1]

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Hill forts in Wiltshire
Hills of Wiltshire

Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Annales Cambriae

The (Latin for Annals of Wales) is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales.

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Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum.

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Battle of Badon

The Battle of Badon, also known as the Battle of Mons Badonicus, was purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain during the late 5th or early 6th century.

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Borough of Swindon

The Borough of Swindon is a unitary authority area with borough status in Wiltshire, England.

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The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Bronze Age Britain

Bronze Age Britain is an era of British history that spanned from until.

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Cadbury Castle, Devon

Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age Hillfort close to Bickleigh, Devon, England.

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De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae

(On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, sometimes just On the Ruin of Britain) is a work written in Latin in the late fifth or sixth century by the British religious polemicist Gildas.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Flint mining

Flint mining is the process of extracting flint from underground.

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Gildas

Gildas (English pronunciation:, Breton: Gweltaz) — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Historia Brittonum

The History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is a purported history of early Britain written around 828 that survives in numerous recensions from after the 11th century.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Lamar University

Lamar University (Lamar or LU) is a public university in Beaumont, Texas.

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Liddington

Liddington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, England.

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Nennius

Nennius – or Nemnius or Nemnivus – was a Welsh monk of the 9th century.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Palisade

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.

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Richard Jefferies

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Sarsen

Sarsen stones are silicified sandstone blocks found extensively across southern England on the Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire; in Kent; and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Dorset, and Hampshire.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Starfish site

Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate burning British cities.

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The Ridgeway

The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road.

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The Story of My Heart

The Story of My Heart is a book first published in 1883 by English nature writer, essayist, and journalist Richard Jefferies.

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Triangulation station

A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England.

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Wapley Hill

Wapley Hill is an Iron Age hill fort in Herefordshire, England, 3 km south-east of Presteigne.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine is a county journal published by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (WANHS), based in Devizes, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddington_Castle

Liddington Castle, the Glossary

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Hill forts in Wiltshire

Hills of Wiltshire

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