| 词条 | Conygar Hillfort |
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| name =Conygar Hillfort | native_name = | native_language = | image = | caption = | locmapin =Somerset | coordinates = {{coord|51|28|20|N|2|43|31|W|display=inline,title}} | location =Portbury, Somerset, England | area = | built =Iron Age | architect = | architecture = | governing_body = | designation1 =Scheduled Ancient Monument | designation1_offname = | designation1_date = | designation1_number =195214 | designation2 = | designation2_offname = | designation2_date = | designation2_number = }}Conygar Hillfort is a small multivallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[1] The hill fort is situated approximately {{convert|0.5|mi}} south from the village of Portbury near Bristol and the M5. The fort is triangular in shape and there are the remains of a {{convert|3|ft}} high bank on the south-western side.[1] Background{{further|Hill fort}}Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC.[2] The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture. The dominant view since the 1960s has been that the increasing use of iron led to social changes in Britain. Deposits of iron ore were located in different places to the tin and copper ores necessary to make bronze, and as a result trading patterns shifted and the old elites lost their economic and social status. Power passed into the hands of a new group of people.[3] Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe believes that population increase still played a role and has stated "[the forts] provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress [of an increasing population] burst out into open warfare. But I wouldn't see them as having been built because there was a state of war. They would be functional as defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".[4] See also
References1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Conygar|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=195214|work=National Monuments Record|publisher=English Heritage|accessdate=6 March 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2011}}2. ^{{citation |first1=Andrew |last1=Payne |first2=Mark |last2=Corney |first3=Barry |last3=Cunliffe |title=The Wessex Hillforts Project: Extensive Survey of Hillfort Interiors in Central Southern England |publisher=English Heritage |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-873592-85-4 |url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.10744 | page=1}} 3. ^{{citation |last=Sharples |first=Niall M |title=English Heritage Book of Maiden Castle |publisher=B. T. Batsford |year=1991 |location=London |isbn=0-7134-6083-0 | pages=71–72}} 4. ^{{citation |url=http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2008/swords/swords-found.html |title=Time Team: Swords, skulls and strongholds |publisher=Channel 4 |date=2008-05-19 |accessdate=16 September 2009}} 3 : Hill forts in Somerset|Iron Age sites in Somerset|Scheduled Ancient Monuments in North Somerset |
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