Mellor Hillfort
Mellor Hillfort is a prehistoric site in north west England on a hill in Mellor , Greater Manchester , on the western edge of the Peak District National Park .
history
The Mellor Hillfort Wall is characteristic as an essential part of the former enclosure from the Iron Age (British Iron Age). The walling consisted of the wall as such with wooden trunks worked into it. The size of the ramparts with round houses suggests that they served as a refuge .
The roughly one-hectare settlement was also inhabited in Roman times. The settlement was probably abandoned in the 4th century. By the time it was rediscovered in the 1990s, the place had been forgotten. The archaeological dig, which has been carried out since 1998, is funded by the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and with grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund .
The artifacts found , such as a 4000 year old amber necklace from the Bronze Age , suggest that its inhabitants were involved in the long-distance trade. The excavations were carried out by the University of Manchester archaeological team . The round house was built as a replica in 2002 by students from Ridge Danyers Sixth Form College and is now at the site. Many of the artifacts discovered at Mellor Hillfort during the excavations are on permanent display at the Stockport Museum .
literature
- Barry Cunliffe: Danebury: Anatomy of an Iron Age Hillfort , Batsford Ltd, 1983 ISBN 0-7134-0998-3
- Mike Nevell, Norman Redhead editors: Mellor: Living on the Edge. A Regional Study of an Iron Age and Romano-British Upland Settlement , University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit, and the Mellor Archaeological Trust, 2005 ISBN 0-9527813-6-0
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Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '48.9 " N , 2 ° 1' 37.5" W.