Maiden Castle, Dorset

Aerial photograph of Maiden Castle

Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south west of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset.^[2] Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age. The name Maiden Castle may be a modern construction meaning that the hill fort looks impregnable, or it could derive from the British Celtic mai-dun, meaning a "great hill."

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden Castle, Dorset
• page 143 - Hunt, P., 2007, Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History: Penguin, New York, 226p.