Talk:Hillfort

message: I think this entry should be split according to 
independent geography and history into at least 4 entries: 
* new European_Hill_fort
* new Indian_Hill_fort
* Lithuanian hill forts reference to Piliakalnis
* Maori hill forts reference to Pa %28M%C4%81ori%29
Presumably this will be 2 copies, with renaming,
then edit out the other text, finally replace the
old page with a disambiguation entry for the new articles
and the existing Lithuanian and Maori articles.
The Lithuanian forts seem to be distinct in their
usage and history from the more general European 
Bronze and Iron Age forts, even if they share some previously occupied sites.
Anyone agree ? disagree ? care ? know how to do it ?
--Mikhailfranco 15:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Splitting ?

message: While I put this merging on the backburner, someone has decided this article should be split. Whichever happens, I would hope that we could find a consistent solution for this as the Castro article even has a picture of a Scottish hillfort, which IMO infers that they are one and the same thing. I am for keeping all of the different types of hillforts in one article and for merging Castro (village) here. -Yupik 11:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not have objections, although some regional and timeline separation would be useful IMO.--Lokyz 19:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Merging seems logical and see how it looks. Can always rethink it. - Ballista 04:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: The information about the Swedish hill-forts are out of date, a lot =) New evidence suggests that the "fortifications" are from the megalith period (late stone age, early bronze age) and wehre not fortresses at all. The function was "cult", i.e. used to observe the stars of the night skys, moon and/or the suns movments. It's a bit like the walls around Stonehenge and similair structures.
If you can read Swedish you can go here (fornborgar) to read a bit about it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.89.243.143 (talk) 07:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweden 

message: i find the stated derivation of the lithuanian word very odd. why would lithuanian, a slavic language, take the roots of any words from english? moreover, i don't recognize either of those roots from modern, middle or old english. explanation please.Toyokuni3 (talk) 02:50, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lithuanian

message: My understanding (I'm no expert) of "hill fort" is that the term refers to a type of defensive earthwork, often inhabited, dating from a particular period of European history (or pre-history), used for defence of a community. It is does not include medieaval castles on hills, nor fortifications in other cultures, although the New Zealand pa is similar. Is this correct? If so, then we should say so and split other info into other articles, otherwise every castle or fortified town on a hill from Harlech to Krak des Chevaliers, perhaps including some WWII fortifications, would qualify Folks at 137 (talk) 18:09, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's my understanding of a hillfort (I'm no expert either), and I think this article should be strictly for the late Bronze and Iron Age fortifications. The New Zealand and Indian fortifications can go in the see also section. Nev1 (talk) 02:11, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What is a "Hill fort"?

message: " Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists. Oxford University Press. Page 299 " is not a proper ref: needs volume and page, or at least the year.----Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 17:11, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference was added by  on 35 May 2008. A Google search suggests the incomplete citation refers to this, however because "cytian" is given only a passing mention I've removed it altogether. Better later than never? Nev1 (talk) 18:14, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Inadequate reference

message: The articles in the following link look interesting and may be useful to anyone who wants to expand this article in the future.  Nev1 (talk) 18:40, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Useful sources

message: Would anyone object to the article being moved to hillfort as opposed to hill fort? The former is far more common in archaeoogical literature. Nev1 (talk) 17:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Belatedly, this has been discussed by two of us at User talk:Pahazzard ‎#Hillforts.  I'll ask an admin to move the article now, and if there is any objection we can revisit it.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:29, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: Nice reference and definition here but could easily be integrated into the 'Types of hill fort' section. PatHadley (talk) 21:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the hatnotes in view of the lack of discussion in nearly a year. --Bermicourt (talk) 09:08, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Hill-slope enclosure]] 

message: The hillfort distribution of the Iberian Peninsula is very convoluted. This pattern of settlements is related to a geographical region, in the north of Spain and Potugal, characterized by a wether, more wet and rainy than the one in the south, and hilly orography. Some historians call it now "Cantabric Region" when speaking about the Iron Age. It includes the "Comunidad Autonoma" of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Euskadi, Aragón, and provinces like León or Soria  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.14.238.233 (talk) 11:58, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spain 

message: Some old pae history that used to be at the title "Hillfort" is no at Talk:Hillfort/Old history. Graham87 05:29, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old page history 

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