Welcome to Duropolis: Britain's oldest, most peaceful town

A town dating 150 years before the Roman invasion shows the Ancient Britons were peaceful farmers and traders. Britain's oldest town has been discovered by archaeologists in an excavation that is rewriting the prehistory books. Previously it was thought the most Iron Age Britons lived in huge hill forts, like Maiden Castle in Dorset, because inter-tribal warfare was an ever present threat. With their wide ditches and high ramparts, hill forts dominated the prehistoric landscape, acting as defensive strongholds and ostentatious symbols of power to ward off invaders. But the new discovery suggests that large unfortified towns also existed during the Iron Age, occupied by hundreds of people who seemingly were unperturbed by warring factions.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/11744249/Welcome-to-Duropolis-Britains-oldest-most-peaceful-town.html