Hengistbury Head

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) To the east of Southbourne lies the Iron Age, then Romano British trading settlement & port, Hengistbury Head. The sites inception began as a coastal promontory hillfort at the headland then when the double defensive dykes to the west were built circa 700BC the whole peninsula became the trading settlement to the area. Site occupied since the upper Palaeolithic. As the site is over 80 hectares there have been many stages of occupation spread over the centuries. Much ancient industry evidence including coin minting. Mediterranean Amphorae finds including glassware, jewellery, coins brooch and bronze work. I think you could spend your whole archaeological career here due to the size of the site and still not finish your dissertation. (Scheduled Monument) Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Durotriges [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Wikipedia websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]