[4] The site straddles the modern border between Somerset and Wiltshire, and is within Castle Wood which covers its defences and interior.

[3] The road north from Penselwood village crosses the hill fort and probably passes through the original entrances.

[5][6] Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC.

[8] Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe believes that population increase still played a role and has stated "[the forts] provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress [of an increasing population] burst out into open warfare.

They would be functional as defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".