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Ham Hill Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort located on Ham Hill, Somerset, England. It was also occupied during the mesolithic and neolithic periods and later during Roman and medieval eras. The fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and the whole of the hill is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ham Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) citation sheet )〕 a country park operated by South Somerset Council, and is visited by over 250,000 people each year. It covers an area of , making it one of the largest hillforts in Britain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ham Hill Iron Age Hillfort Publisher=wessex archeology )〕 It is the only one with a public house in its interior. ==Background==
Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, at roughly the start of the first millennium BC. The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, have been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture. The dominant view since the 1960s has been that the increasing use of iron led to social changes in Britain. Deposits of iron ore were located in different places to the tin and copper ore necessary to make bronze; as a result, trading patterns shifted, the old elites lost their economic and social status, and power passed into the hands of a new group of people. Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe believes that population increase still played a role and has stated, "(forts ) provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress (an increasing population ) burst out into open warfare. But I wouldn't see them as having been built because there was a state of war. They would be functional as defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction."
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