Fin Cop

Fin Cop is a hill in the Peak District of central English county of Derbyshire on which a defensive position from the Iron Age around the year 400 BC is

The defense position is 313 m above sea level, overlooking the River Wye, about 160 meters below the lies near the village of Ashford-in -the-Water. The non-protected by a steep slope east and south sides of the hill is more secured than the steeply sloping to the river west and north side of the cop

The system indicates that it was built built in great haste. In the past, British archaeologists had assumed that the more than three thousand known hill forts of this type have only been used as status and power symbols. Fin Cop suggests that such investments also served military purposes.

The Prospector of the Archeological Research Service ( Archaeological Research Service) Clive Waddington told that the remains of the bodies of women, babies, a toddler and a teenager were found in a five -meter wide and two meters deep ditch. In the previously uncovered trench 10 meters long, the dead were buried apparently separated from male cadavers and hastily covered with debris of the defensive position.