Uffington Castle Hill Fort

Local nameUffington Castle Hill Fort
LocationUffington, UK

Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end. A second entrance in the eastern end was apparently blocked up a few centuries after it was built.

The original defensive ditch was V-shaped with a small box rampart in front and a larger one behind it. Timber posts stood on the ramparts. Later the ditch was deepened and the extra material dumped on top of the ramparts to increase their size. A parapet wall of sarsen stones lined the top of the innermost rampart. It is very close to the Uffington White Horse on White Horse Hill.

Tags Iron AgeEnglish HeritageScheduled MonumentFortificationArchaeological SiteFree
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Opening hours

Till Mar 24, 2015: open at any reasonable time during daylight hours

Admission

Admission to the site is free.

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_Castle

English Heritage website http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/uffington-castle-white-horse-and-dragon-hill/

Phone +44 870 333 1181

Address SN7 7, United Kingdom

Coordinates 51°34'30.171" N -1°34'9.575" E

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