Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill, 500m north of Castle Hill Cottages

Half a kilometre north of Castle Hill Cottages, Dungeon Hill still carries the heavy shadow of an Iron Age hillfort, its massive bank and deep ditch enclosing seven hectares of land where Roman coins and sword blades once lay buried beneath woodland. Mr Foy stripped the trees in the late 1700s to reveal those lost weapons and bones, while medieval farmers later cut terraced lynchets into the eastern slope for cultivation. The earth remembers both the martial pride of ancient builders and the quiet hunger of later growers, preserving a layered human history that modern brick tunnels now bypass rather than disturb.