Thought SSU might enjoy this...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_ ... ign=bufferThe many hundreds of hillforts dotted across the UK and Ireland offer a connection to our long-distant past and some clues as to how our Iron Age ancestors lived. Hillforts is something of a misnomer, though; they aren’t always on hills, and they probably weren’t “forts” in the sense of the word we think of today. “Otherwise, it’s a perfectly good name for them!” says Professor Gary Lock of the University of Oxford.
Professor Lock is one of the co-leaders of a project that reaches its fruition today to document, map and make accessible – at least online – these fascinating glimpses into how we lived in prehistoric times. The initiative is a joint one between Oxford, the University of Edinburgh and University College Cork, and an army of “citizen scientists” who have helped bring together the hitherto diverse documentation on these long-lost settlements.
