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Brent Hill

hillfort in Devon, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ4961427 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brent Hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort situated close to South Brent in Devon, England. The fort occupies the top of Brent Hill at approx 311 metres (1,020 ft) above Sea Level.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Brent Hill” as hillfort in Devon, England, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brent, Hill and hillfort.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brent, Hill and hillfort providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4961427. Authority coordinates are 50.441, -3.827. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brent Hill” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.