Archaeologists uncover workings, walls and tools dating back to the Iron Age at the site.
Nationally important evidence of Iron Age furnaces and tools have been discovered during the excavation of a hillfort.Evidence of iron workings, interior walls giving insight into the architecture of the fort and guard chambers, have all been revealed.Nesscliffe Hills is managed by Shropshire Council and contains an Iron Age hillfort later occupied by the Romans.
There is also a cave which was said to have been the hideout of medieval highwayman Humphrey Kynaston. Carbon dating will be used to see if the workings date from the early or middle Iron Age and what kind of implements were being constructed, said the council. Paul Reilly, a visiting fellow in archaeology at the University of Southampton, and Gary Lock, emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Oxford, and their team made the discoveries during a dig in the summer.Previous digs uncovered guard chambers near the fort entrance, which he described as "some of the best preserved in Britain".
If funding is secured the team will return for the final time next summer to explore another possible roundhouse site.
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