The (re)occupation of hillforts was a distinctive feature of post-Roman Europe in the fifth to seventh centuries ad. In western and northern Britain, hillforts are interpreted as power centres associated with militarized elites, but research has paid less attention to their landscape context, hence we know little about the factors that influenced their siting and how this facilitated elite power. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide opportunities for landscape research, but are constrained by limitations of source data and the difficulty of defining appropriate parameters for analysis. This article presents a new methodology that combines data processing and analytical functions in GIS with techniques and principles drawn from ‘traditional’ landscape archaeology. A case study, focused on Dinas Powys, suggests that the strategic siting of this hillfort facilitated control over the landscape and has wider implications for our understanding of patterns of power in post-Roman Britain.

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英国后罗马时代西部的堡垒与权力：Dinas Powys 的 GIS 分析

（重新）占领山丘是五至七世纪后罗马时代欧洲的一个显着特征广告. 在英国西部和北部，山丘被解释为与军事化精英相关的权力中心，但研究对其景观背景的关注较少，因此我们对影响其选址的因素以及这如何促进精英权力知之甚少。地理信息系统 (GIS) 为景观研究提供了机会，但受到源数据的限制和为分析定义适当参数的难度。本文介绍了一种新方法，它将 GIS 中的数据处理和分析功能与“传统”景观考古学中的技术和原则相结合。以 Dinas Powys 为重点的案例研究，