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Mam Tor

Castleton, Derbyshire

A hillfort on the Shivering Mountain, slowly sliding away.

Mam Tor is crowned by a late Bronze Age and Iron Age hillfort, with more than a hundred hut platforms near the top. Its east face is a huge landslip that has never stopped moving, giving it the name the Shivering Mountain.

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When
From c. 1200 BC
Where
53.3490, -1.8100
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

National Trust. A paved path climbs to the summit.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The name means ‘mother hill’, because the landslips on its eastern face have left many small hills beneath it. People also call it the Shivering Mountain.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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