The Hillforts Primer: An Analysis of the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Data

The Hillforts primer digital archive comprises statistical model images, report and hillforts primer spreadsheet. In 2017 the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland was published online (Lock & Ralston 2024) making a large, open dataset available for reuse and reinterpretation. The interpretation of this work was subsequently published in 2019 and 2022 (Lock & Ralston 2019; 2022). The hillforts data is large and complex, making it challenging to manipulate, especially in a discipline where a lack of data literacy skills is identified as a key issue limiting data reuse. The Hillforts Primer aims to systematically analyse, map, and plot all the attributes in the Hillforts Atlas data.