Some of these consisted of a single bank and ditch as at Clearbury and Figsbury Rings, and at
Ogbury near Salisbury.
Barbury Castle to the south of Swindon
The defences of others were later strengthened with additional banks and complicated entrances, as
at Battlesbury camp near Warminster and Yarnbury Castle near Berwick St James.
Many farmstead and village sites of this period have been found but their remains are rarely visible
from the surface; an exception is the Stockton Earthworks, a settlement which survived well into the
Roman occupation of Britain.
The Celts cultivated corn using primitive ploughs and art was strongly developed in their society; it is probably the Celts who first cut away the downland turf to reaveal the White Horse of Uffington in Berkshire.
