Iron Age Hillfort Labelling

Year 3 HistoryStone Age to Iron Age2 pages

About this worksheet

A labelling diagram for the Year 3 Stone Age to Iron Age unit. A picture of a British Iron Age hillfort on high ground has six label lines, A to F. Pupils write a label on each line from a word bank of six: thatched roundhouse, guarded entrance, defensive ditch, raised granary, earth rampart and wooden palisade. The answer key gives the letter for each part, from A (the roundhouse) to F (the entrance). It links to the England National Curriculum objective on changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

โ€œChanges in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Ageโ€

Partly met. The sheet shows one Iron Age settlement. Pupils need a Stone Age comparison to see the change.

What's inside this worksheet

Features of an Iron Age Hillfort

A hillfort picture with six label lines and a word bank. Three labels are defences (ditch, rampart and palisade), and two are places to live and store food.

How teachers use it

Defence talk

Ask pupils to find the three labels that kept enemies out and say how each one worked.

Why a raised granary

Ask why the granary stood off the ground. It opens a talk about damp, mice and keeping grain through winter.

Model making

Use the labelled sheet as a plan if the class builds hillforts from clay or card.

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