Landscape · Settlement · Discovery

The Fortified Landscapes of Iron Age Britain

A different way into the Roman Storyworld hillfort and oppidum database.

Choose a place, reveal the sites around it, and explore outward.

Explore the landscape

Interactive explorer

Choose a place. Reveal its landscape.

Search for a site or county, browse by region, or let the explorer choose somewhere for you. Every selection stays visible below the map, with the nearest records calculated from the existing coordinates.

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records in the map database

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records labelled Hillfort

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records labelled Oppidum

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county / area labels

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Begin anywhere.

Search for a familiar place, choose a county, click a marker, or use Discover somewhere. The explorer will then show the nearest records around that site.

Browse by landscape

Where does the database become dense?

The cards below are generated from the county and area labels already present in the data. Choose one to filter and fit the map automatically.

Browse all county / area labels

Read the map carefully

What this explorer is—and is not—doing

Map

The map shows the coordinates supplied in the database and lets you move between records by search, county, marker selection and proximity.

Classification

Records retain the existing dataset labels Hillfort and Oppidum. The explorer does not reclassify individual places.

Nearby sites

Distances and directions are calculated from the supplied coordinates. They reveal spatial relationships inside the dataset, not ancient roads or political boundaries.

Database note: this page deliberately preserves the existing Roman Storyworld records. It improves how the collection can be explored, but it does not silently add archaeological claims that are absent from the source data.