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The research on hillfort ramparts and ditches has often been restricted to narrow trenches, but in a few cases, notably the Breiddin, Crickley Hill and Danebury, more extensive excavations can be compared with those at Castell Henllys. The interpretation of hillforts and their earthworks has been heavily influenced by culture-historical, functionalist or processualist, and post-processualist approaches. These various theoretical stances have given different priority to events and processes, military, social, and symbolic roles of hillfort earthworks, and the place of hillforts in the wider landscape. The regional context of research also situates the Castell Henllys project in its historiographical setting.

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Mytum, H. (2013). Previous Research on Hillfort Ramparts and Ditches. In: Monumentality in Later Prehistory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8027-3_7

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