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Article: Archive: Why and how we used to live on hill forts; Chris Upton looks at the history of two hill forts built by our ancestors, British Camp and Midsummer Hill, which dominate the town of Great Malvern.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2001
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Byline: Chris Upton
It is a British characteristic, having seen a hill, to want to stand on the top of it. Across the country, from the Cairngorms to the Brecon Beacons, hill climbers with crampons and ropes, axes and sturdy shoes, ascend the most daunting of peaks for nothing more tangible than the view of where they have come from.
Such vicarious pleasures are no doubt transmitted through the genes, for our Iron Age ancestors did exactly the same thing. But here there were less abstract reasons for the ascent. A well-defended hill offered protection, and ...