Solsbury Hill Camp

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) To the northeast of Bath, just over the A46 lies the roughly triangular univallate Solsbury Hillfort at the summit of Solsbury Hill. Initial construction phase, circa 300BC. Site burnt down circa 100BC, possibly due to the Belgic invasion around that time. (This is the first reference I’ve found of this episode of Iron Age Britain before the Roman invasion 150 years later.) A few other southern Britain sites I’ve posted have been destroyed by burning around this time too and I thought it was due to in-fighting amongst the British tribes & not an external influence (as nothing was mentioned on the finds reports apart from ‘site abandoned after being burnt down’, etc.) (The Belgae were a group of tribes from Gaul (France/Belgium) Caesar conquered the Belgae 40-50 years after their British incursions, then visited Britain ‘for a bit of a chat’, which didn’t go well, so we got 100 years grace before the subsequent invasion in 43AD under the reign of Emperor Claudius. Solsbury Hill is one of the possible sites of the ‘Battle of Badon’ in 496AD between King Arthur and the Saxons. Evidence of Medieval/Post medieval field systems. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Dobunni (Scheduled Monument)