Each hillfort seems to be the expression of a local group and was an individual site rather than a part of a defensive system. In their interior were discovered numerous areas featuring remains of economic as well as religious activities. Nevertheless, numerous, located on strategic position controlling the main communication routes in Europe, became integrated into the networks of developing states of the Late Iron Age. Hillforts from the hinterland of Classical Greece to the northern tip of the British Isles became seats of aristocracies, building palaces and importing exotic goods from the Mediterranean.
