Reconstruction illustration showing a simple section drawing taken through the earthwork ramparts at the western end of Old Oswestry Hillfort, as they may have appeared when in use in the Iron Age

Date:: Jan 2006

Location:: Old Oswestry Hillfort, Selattyn And Gobowen, Shropshire

Reference:: IC073/008

Type:: Reconstruction Artwork

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Old Oswestry Hillfort was a large, multivallate Iron Age hillfort. The western entrance to the hillfort was defended by a distinctive system of earthwork ramparts with a linear series of 'pits'. This rampart formation has not been observed at any other Iron Age hillfort to date.

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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

Reconstruction illustration showing a simple section drawing taken through the earthwork ramparts at the western end of Old Oswestry Hillfort, as they may have appeared when in use in the Iron Age

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