Ham Hill in Somerset encloses over 85 hectares — one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Britain. Its massive multiple-rampart defences dominated the Somerset levels. Archaeological finds of Roman military equipment and destruction horizon evidence suggest it fell to Vespasian forces during the southwest campaign. Its capture opened the Somerset levels to Roman penetration westward toward Exeter.
Multiple cohorts of Legio II Augusta required to invest a perimeter of exceptional length
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