The final battleĭespite their best efforts to protect the fort, in the sixth century BC, it was burned and abandoned. A rubble-cored timber laced rampart surrounded the settlement, and a rock-cut, flat-bottomed ditch paralleled the rampart. This would have been a triangular patch on top of the hill covering almost nine acres and would have been home to about 100 people. The abandoned enclosure and causeway were replaced by an Iron Age Hill Fort. It was rebuilt several times, but after being aggressively attacked it was finally abandoned in the Neolithic Period. The first structures on the hill date back to 3500-2500 BC and included an enclosure with a causeway. Crickley Hill is well known amongst historians and archaeologists for its recurring violence.
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