History, Law and Social Science: Digging up the past: Life on an Iron Age Hillfort

This talk will explore how Iron Age communities living in northwest Wales lived. We will explore the development of new hilltop enclosures – called hillforts – which were places where larger communities started to form in the first millennium BC. These monuments are still highly visible in the landscapes today and they represent the action of large groups of people. Many of the foundations of modern day life were laid down during this period, but as we shall see in this talk, groups in the Iron Age had very different ways of viewing the world than we do today! The presentation will focus in particular on recent research on our excavations of the small hillfort of Meillionydd on Pen Llŷn.