Ham Hill is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Britain at over 200 acres, dominating the Somerset levels. Archaeological finds including Roman military equipment and evidence of destruction layers suggest it was one of the oppida that Suetonius records Vespasian capturing. The site guarded the approaches to the Somerset plain and the Parrett valley.
Multiple cohorts of Legio II Augusta required for assault of such a large perimeter
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