Evergreen Dazed wrote: This is why I think Tiompans suggestion of refuge or storage would be more likely than them living 'full time' with such a 'powerful' monument in the same space.
Yeah, I suspect a lot of what we call "forts" aren't so simple as the name implies, i.e. purely/primarily defensive structures. Some would probably have had a fairly permanent population (Croft Ambrey in Herefordshire appears to have had a series of residential phases, not to mention a possible/probably Celtic shrine), others may have been used for occasional purposes (again not necessary defensive, perhaps as a communal meeting place), and some were probably little more than stock enclosures/corrals.
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