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Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, but within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. It has also been interpreted as a defensive cattle enclosure associated with nearby Romano-British settlements. It is roughly rectangular in plan with a single entrance on the south/southeast side, but with a later break in the wall on the western side.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English heritage pastscape entry for Knook Castle )〕 John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–1872) described Knook Castle as follows: Knook Castle is an ancient single ditched entrenchment, of about 2 acres; is supposed to have been originally a British village, and afterwards a Roman summer camp; and has yielded Roman coins. Traces of another ancient British village are to the N. "The site of these villages," says Sir R. Hoare, "is decidedly marked by great cavities and a black soil; and the attentive eye may easily trace out the lines of houses and the streets, or rather the hollow ways, conducting to them. Numerous tumuli and barrows are in the neighbourhood."〔(Knook ) at visionofbritain.org.uk〕 The site and surrounding downs are easily accessible by public footpath, with the ''Imber Range perimeter path''〔Imber Range perimeter path map http://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path_map.php?path_name=Imber+Range+Perimeter+Path〕 running east to west immediately to the north of the site. Further to the north lies Imber Range, one of the military firing ranges of Salisbury Plain. ==Romano British Settlements== Nearby, some 300m to the north of the hillfort, and slightly further to the north east, are the sites of two Romano British settlements of ''Knook Down East'' and ''Knook Down West''. They lie approximately 600m apart and are linked by an earlier linear ditch or hollow way. Knook Down East covers approximately and is well preserved around a central trackway feature that runs north to south, with 11no. surrounding scooped platforms and enclosures. Knook Down West covers approximately and may comprise two distinct settlements. The northern side of the site has a central area off of which are five trackways that serve a number of enclosures. On the southern side of the site are three enclosures. Between the two areas lies a field system, with the north and south sides linked by a trackway, which follows the line of a pre-Roman linear ditch.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English heritage pastscape entry for Knook Down West settlement )〕 Finds at the sites and the surrounding areas date predominantly from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, and include for bones, bracelets, nails, door-furniture, Roman coins, stone flooring, hearths with painted stucco and brick, and burial remains found with a basalt axe.〔 Possible associated landscape features also include for extensive surrounding field systems, boundary earthworks, ponds, two corn-drying kilns, and the outline of a possible small amphitheatre, or circus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English heritage pastscape entry for Knook Down east and west settlements )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English heritage pastscape entry for Knook Down east settlement )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knook Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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