Pilsdon Pen is the highest point in Dorset at 277 metres and hosted one of the most defensible hillforts in the southwest. Excavations have revealed evidence of late Iron Age occupation. Its capture by Vespasian secured the western approach to Dorset and the routes into Devon and the Dumnonii territory beyond.
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