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Castell Henllys is an inland promontory style of hillfort located in West Wales, on the western edge of Britain, in a landscape with large numbers of known enclosed later prehistoric settlements. The hillfort settlement was constructed in the middle Iron Age, c. 400 bc, and in the first or second century bc it was abandoned and a smaller settlement established in its annexe area, before a brief reoccupation of the promontory in the late Roman or post-Roman (fourth or fifth century ad) and then abandonment. Castell Henllys became important again in the late twentieth century as an archaeological site, with a long and complex excavation biography, and as a heritage attraction and educational resource.
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Mytum, H. (2013). Castell Henllys in Its Temporal, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts. In: Monumentality in Later Prehistory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8027-3_2
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