Reconstruction painting showing an aerial view of Old Oswestry Hillfort as it may have appeared in the Iron Age, with the western entrance in the distance and its unique formation of defensive earthwork ramparts

Date:
1990
Location:
Old Oswestry Hillfort, Selattyn And Gobowen, Shropshire
Reference:
IC073/006
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

Old Oswestry Hillfort was a large, multivallate Iron Age hillfort, built on a site showing evidence of occupation from the Late Bronze Age. The western entrance to the hillfort was defended by a distinctive system of earthwork ramparts with 'pits'. This rampart formation has not been observed at any other Iron Age hillfort to date.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC073 Old Oswestry Hillfort, Shropshire; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan

Keywords

Iron Age Settlement, Iron Age Rampart, Iron Age Earthwork, Iron Age Round House (Domestic), Iron Age Multivallate Hillfort