South Cadbury
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South Cadbury is an archaeological site in south Somerset.
It was excavated in the early seventies, and it revealed several stages of occupation. The first was in the early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) when the hill seems to have been a significant place in the landscape for relatively mobile groups of early agriculturalists. The main phase begins in the late Bronze Age when the hill was occupied as a settlement (c. 1200 BCE) Throughout the Iron Age the site developed to the form recognisable today, with imposing multiple ramparts. The sites prehistoric occupation came to an effective end with the Romans. A 'massacre' deposit revealed in the south-west gate testifies to the crushing of local resistance. The site was reoccupied in post Roman times, a punative feasting Hall was discovered during the excavations. The site has long been associated with Arthur but this connection has tended to overshadow its important prehistoric evidence.