17 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 castro settlement
Explanation:
Some spell "castro" with a small c, some capitalise it, and some italicise it.
"Castro" culture is really a name applied to pre-Roman Galician culture:
"Castro culture (Galician: cultura castrexa, Portuguese: cultura castreja, Asturian: cultura castriega, Spanish: cultura castreña) is the archaeological term for the material culture of the north-western regions of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day northern Portugal together with Galicia, Asturias, Castile and León, Cantabria and Basque Country) from the end of the Bronze Age (c. 9th century BC) until it was subsumed by Roman culture (c. 1st century BC). It is the culture associated with the Celtiberians, closely associated to the western Hallstatt horizon of Central Europe. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_culture
The following is from a University of London Institute of Archaeology PhD thesis, so the author should know what he's talking about:
"The open settlement, which had typified the Late Bronze Age, was in time replaced by small fortified castro settlements where it has been estimated that the majority of the sites numbered no more than 200 inhabitants by the Late Iron Age (third century BC – first century BC) ( Parcero Oub iña 2003, 281). The term castro derives from a Portuguese / Spanish reading of the Latin word castrum, or fortress, used by Roman authorities to describe these structures, and in the later Medieval period to identify fortified hillforts when registering la nd tenancies (Queiroga 2003, 3). Archaeological research has proposed that castro settlements were p ositioned in easily defen dable locations, with good access to suitable farmland, and were structurally similar in terms of style, size and assumed function (these notions are debated vigorously throughout this thesis) , and are often referred to collectively as the ‘Castro Culture’ (Silva 1995, 263)."
"On a rock that is not highon the ground (as is common in Galician petroglyphs) located on the upper parapet of the Castro settlement we find petroglyphs engraved on its surface that have a special relevance as weapons representations , linked to British rock art datable around III -II millennium BC."
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=40396
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Note added at 20 mins (2018-10-22 16:44:40 GMT)
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Forgot to add the reference to the PhD thesis (the passage quoted is on p. 16; the author uses the term throughout the thesis):
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1386116/16/Thesis volume 1 copyri...
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Note added at 25 mins (2018-10-22 16:49:26 GMT)
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Maybe that's why the surname Castro is particularly identified with Galicia.
https://www.elcorreogallego.es/galicia/ecg/apellidos-frecuen...
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Note added at 4 hrs (2018-10-22 21:09:06 GMT)
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You could add "pre-Roman hillfort" after "castro" if you think target readers need an explanation.
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