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Enormous - according to English Heritage equivalent to 50 football pitches - Iron Age hillfort with multiple and complex ramparts and ditches. This was ancient Dorchester! Here, Vespasian's highly trained Roman troops overcame the British defenders, the Durotriges tribe, one of whom ended up with a ballista in his spine. There's not much to see, but quite a lot to marvel and wonder at.

Photo by Major George Allen (1891–1940) (Ashmolean Museum) public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Region/Nation
Location/Address
Winterborne Monkton
Dorchester
County
Dorset
Post Code
DT2 9EY
Main Historic Period
Prehistory
Tip/Nearby
Max Gate, Dorchester
Primary Management
English Heritage

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