Hunsbury Hill

Hunsbury Hill is an Iron Age slope fortification two miles south-west of the focal point of the town of Northampton in the region of Northamptonshire. It is plausible that resistances were worked at Hunsbury Hill between the seventh and fourth hundreds of years BC. The profound jettison uncovered has made due to the present day. A wooden bulwark was additionally developed; there is confirm that Hunsbury slope fortress' inward defenses were burned to the ground and vitrified; this is uncommon in England.

A considerable lot of the fortification's inner highlights were obliterated, yet the work uncovered up to 300 pits which, as indicated by the guardian of Northampton Museum in 1887, contained "ious ancient rarities that presently involve one of the best accumulations of Prehistoric ancient pieces in England". The finds included iron weapons and apparatuses, bronze clasps, stoneware, glass and around 159 quern-stones. All were given to the town's historical center. Hunsbury Hill fortification is an assigned Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Parts of the stronghold's banks have been gravely dissolved due to the nineteenth century quarrying, the impacts of tunneling European rabbits and harm from tree roots. It is currently overseen as a recreation center by Northampton Borough Council. Some portion of the course of the railroad worked for the quarrying remains and starting in 1975 has been altered for use by the Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust who included another line. The track is utilized and kept up by the Trust. As the utilization of the quarries wrapped up by 1920 the first 3 ft 8 inches measure track was not utilized.