Dorset’s last stand against the Romans
Dec 15, 2021
2 minutes
PATRICK BARKHAM
Today, on a hill just south of Dorchester, you can stroll onto slopes that were transformed by Iron Age people into Maiden Castle, possibly the largest hill fort in Europe. But if you’d walked onto these grassy elevations of south Dorset in 43AD, you’d have had to fight your way in.
Or would you?
To climb the chalk ramparts of this spectacular place, Ralph Fiennes and all.
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