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Hillfort and Wansdyke (earthwork)

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Difference between Hillfort and Wansdyke (earthwork)

Hillfort vs. Wansdyke (earthwork)

A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. Wansdyke (from Woden's Dyke) is a series of early medieval defensive linear earthworks in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north.

Similarities between Hillfort and Wansdyke (earthwork)

Hillfort and Wansdyke (earthwork) have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Anglo-Saxons, Bathampton Down, Celts, Earthworks (archaeology), Hillfort, Maes Knoll, Roman Empire, Wessex.

Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Bathampton Down

Bathampton Down, is a flat limestone plateau in Bathampton overlooking Bath, in Somerset near the River Avon, England.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'' for different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities, although the relationship between ethnic, linguistic and cultural factors in the Celtic world remains uncertain and controversial.

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Earthworks (archaeology)

In archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Maes Knoll

Maes Knoll (sometimes Maes tump or Maes Knoll tump) is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, located at the eastern end of the Dundry Down ridge, south of the city of Bristol and north of the village of Norton Malreward near the eastern side of Dundry Hill.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Wessex

Wessex (Westseaxna rīce, the "kingdom of the West Saxons") was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in the early 10th century.

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Hillfort and Wansdyke (earthwork) Comparison

Hillfort has 148 relations, while Wansdyke (earthwork) has 60. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 3.85% = 8 / (148 + 60).

References

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