hill-fort
A fort constructed on a hill.
| 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi. (1859) 434 A sudden flash and a jet of white smoke puffed out from the hill fort above the town. 1862 Beveridge Hist. India III. vii. iii. 84 The hill-fort of Wusota. |
b. esp. A hill-top fortification of prehistoric age.
| 1851 D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. iii. 90 The simple circular hill-forts wherein we trace the mere rudimentary efforts of a people in the infancy of the arts. 1871 Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. viii. 219 That class of towns which, out of Gaulish hill-forts grew into Roman and mediæval cities. |