Yes, and some things referred to as Hillforts are in fact mortuary /excarnation enclosures, or storage enclosures.
Cheers,
Neil
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In message <[log in to unmask]> on Thu, 13 Feb 2003,
Trevor Reynolds <[log in to unmask]> wrote
>Surely HILLFORT is a narrower term of DEFENDED ENCLOSURE?
>
>Looking at the Heirarchy in the Thesaurus I find that HILLFORT occurs
>twice (in the DEFENCE & DOMESTIC Classes) both times both times its
>Broad Term is ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT. Perhaps the solution is to change
>ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (where it occurs in the DEFENCE Class) to DEFENDED
>ENCLOSURE? I think that all the existing narrower terms would still
>fit happily. (NB the list of Narrower terms for ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT is
>different in the two classes).
That seems an elegant and logical solution. Would it be acceptable to
have a scope note saying that a HILLFORT is a DEFENDED SETTLEMENT on a
hill (acknowledging the difficulty already noted of defining a hill)? If
not, what would the distinction be between these two terms?
Trevor's suggestion also gets rid of one instance of the anomaly of a
term occurring twice with different narrower terms in each case, which
is contrary to all thesaurus standards and is liable to lead to
confusion and inconsistent retrieval.
Leonard Will
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