> Who built the fortresses, who the "great fight" was between and when - nobody really cares that much.
“No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad, Why we fought or why we died. No, all that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important.”
— Conan the Barbarian (1982)
The village I grew up in has a cliff sided promontory called the "Green Castle" - turns out that 1000+ years ago it held a substantial Pictish fort. As a kid I've picked bits of charred wood out from where one of the sides where it is eroding away.
Was it burned down by enemies (a Viking siege?), by accident or on purpose. Nobody knows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Castle,_Portknockie
And there is also the (crazy) idea that I've had since I was a kid that the Tap o' Noth is Tolkien's Weathertop ;-)
And then there are the forts where the walls were melted - by accident or on purpose - nobody is really sure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort