UoB -supervisors, excavation leaders, expert guides and labour! -for their help in the understanding of landscape processes, ArcGIS, and beetle identification  Gill Campbell, Historic England and Dr Wendy Smith, UoB, for their help with the identification of plant macrofossils and wood identification  Dr Warren Eastwood and Richard Johnson, UoB, for fieldwork expertise, use of the Russian corer and guidance in the use of TILIA software; and to Rebecca Eastwood, undergraduate, for undertaking the pollen analysis  Dr Andy Howard for help with field work and moral support  Dr Elaine Morris, for providing background to her ceramics assessment and for remembering what she saw many years ago  Members of the Hillfort Studies Group, for academic input and moral support  The landowners at both the Berth and Wall Camp (the Edwards family, Rod Timmis, Mrs Lea and the Dobson family)