The Hillforts of Iron Age Wales

REVIEW BY IAN RALSTON This monograph on Welsh hillforts is by a man who knows them well. It builds on Driver’s innovative doctoral examination of those in Ceredigion, and his general book on Cardigan Bay, to consider the entirety of the Welsh evidence. His scope extends backwards to the late Bronze Age and forwards, summarily at least, to the recourse to such sites in the Romano-British and early medieval periods. He also considers lesser enclosures, farms, hut-groups, and houses – all important components of the Welsh settlement record. Chapter 1 examines the initial recognition of hillforts and their developing academic study from the Victorian period through more extensive 20th