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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Maiden Castle (Dorset)
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Dorchester  Nearest Village: Winterborne Monkton
Map Ref: SY66908846  Landranger Map Number: 194
Latitude: 50.694837N  Longitude: 2.469998W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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RedKite1985 visited on 21st Apr 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

achiersnakes visited on 2nd Jun 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Amazing Iron Age hill fort. Car park next to site with a well-gravelled footpath leading up to the centre of the fort. The fort is huge and took about an hour to walk around the outside of it at a steady pace. Atmosphere is amazing and lots of ruins on top, as well as information boards and markers. Definitely one for the bucket-list!

FrothNinja visited on 1st Aug 2013 - their rating: Amb: 4

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SolarMegalith visited on 22nd Oct 2011 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

PAB visited on 12th Oct 2011 To help us enjoy both an evening visit and be close enough to just walk up for a dawn attempt at the sunrise/moonset double, we used the Camping & Caravan site just at the foot of Maiden Castle itself. This meant a fairly easy & short walk up to the western entrance - what a delight to have somewhere to leave the campervan & just walk up to such a magnificent location.. For information, the sunrise was about 7.30, with the moon not setting until just after 9am - not often you can catch 2 such lovely times with such a short interval between them. Checking the great Photographers Ephemeris website helps to make me decide whether it might be worth putting an early alarm on - highly recommend it as a source of timing information..

dubnicos visited on 1st Jun 2010 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

ForestDaughter visited on 23rd Sep 2008 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

DrewParsons maddy AngieLake MikeGreen Andy B JimChampion TimPrevett sirius_b mdensham have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.67 Ambience: 4.71 Access: 3.83

Maiden Castle (Dorset)
Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by pab : Moon at dawn over Maiden Castle. Just before sunrise, with the almost full moon about to set. One of those mornings when you feel it is worth getting up early to catch nature's magic working in a magnificent setting. This photo is looking across the north east rim, with the early morning mist beginning to catch the light from the rising sun. October 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure and Iron Age Hillfort in Dorset. The most spectacular hillfort in southern England.

Official Maiden Castle Audio Tour now available, see the comments below

Note: Sara Perry from the University of York has found archive evidence of the world’s first English-language archaeology TV shows - broadcast by the BBC in 1937 (yes that's 1937!) - more details in the comment on our page
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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by pab : Sunrise at Maiden Castle. This is a very atmospheric place - and it is far more impressive than I had hoped for. An early morning walk timed to catch a glorious moon and a sunrise - and well worth it! (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Andy B : Maiden Castle, Nr Dorchester, Dorset. Aerial view. Copyright English Heritage Photo Library (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by baz : Part of the southern defences. (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by ForestDaughter : Looking back towards the north entrance. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maiden Castle (Dorset) / Nothe Fort
Maiden Castle (Dorset) / Nothe Fort submitted by TimPrevett : An unanticipated find was at the Nothe Fort in Weymouth www.fortressweymouth.co.uk . This has, among many magnificent model displays, a labyrinthine passageway (my mum got lost!), a whistling ghost and a find the mouse activity for children, a section concerning the siege / attack on Maiden Castle - with a splendid model showing the Roman assault on the E end of Maiden Castle. I was enjoying the ... (1 comment)

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : Mid afternoon 21st March 2020.

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : Man made dew pond with two peeps walking away

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by adrianmcgrath : Eastern entrance. Iron Age Drone!

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by SolarMegalith : Beautifuly preserved southern earthworks of Maiden Castle, one of the largest Iron Age hillforts of England - view from the west (photo taken on October 2011).

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by SolarMegalith : SE corner of the earthworks - view from the west (photo taken on October 2011).

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : The mightiest of earthworks, still wasn't enough though was it.

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by adrianmcgrath : Looking towards the east entrance. Iron age Drone!

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by SolarMegalith : A bank and ditch in northern part of Maiden Castle - view from the west (photo taken on October 2011).

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by SolarMegalith : Eastern entrance to the hillfort - skeletons of people killed by the Romans have been discovered here (photo taken on October 2011).

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by SolarMegalith : Magnificent southern sector of the earthworks with multiple lines of banks and ditches - view from the east (photo taken on October 2011).

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by SolarMegalith : A ditch in western part of Maiden Castle (photo taken on October 2011).

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Andy B : Maiden Castle Maiden Castle, Somerset, the most dramatic Iron Age hill fort in Britain. Copyright: English Heritage, used with permission. (2 comments)

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Antonine : 2008

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by AngieLake : An aerial view of Maiden Castle saved onto an old computer disk in 2008, and Crown Copyright. Hope this is ok to post?

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : The western entrance

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : Mid afternoon 21st March 2020

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : On the left on the horizon is Hardy's monument, it is a useful navigational aid.

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : Vast earthworks on the south side of the fort

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Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by Postman : One thing I wanted to see was the Roman temple ruin, I got all the way round and hadn't found it so I went a looking, having not much idea what I was looking for I thought this was it, even though I had a faint recollection of there being stone work. Clearly this strange square feature is not the temple I was looking for, but what exactly is it? This question has been asked before but remains... (2 comments)

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Maiden Castle Archaeology on Television, 1937 - Sara Perry by Andy B on Thursday, 19 October 2017
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Sara Perry writes: I’m so pleased to announce that, more than seven years after discovering the records hidden deep inside the BBC’s archives, my research on the first-ever English-language archaeology TV shows (aired in 1937) has been published.

These shows were effectively 100% produced and starred in by key female archaeologists and TV producers of the time. Archaeology was one of the first subjects to air on television very shortly after the British TV service launched (November 1936) At the time, archaeology was considered an experimental science, presented alongside other emerging - and, in some cases, now discredited - empirical research areas like palm-reading(!)

No filmic records survive of these shows (because of the live-to-air nature of TV in the early days), and after weeks of searching through the BBC’s paper archives, I am fairly confident that no scripts survive either. What we do have access to are correspondences, the most fascinating of which include exchanges between producer Mary Adams and Mortimer Wheeler, and Wheeler and David Attenborough (then working behind the scenes in his early professional role for the BBC)

The Maiden Castle Broadcast

On 14 July 1937 the UCL Institute of Archaeology’s Assistant Secretary and Maiden Castle volunteer/press assistant, Margot Eates hosted a 15 minute talk on Maiden Castle

This talk arguably represents the first archaeological TV programme in the world for which records survive.

While the script for this IoA broadcast seems to have been lost, and while the live-to-air nature of early television negated recording of the show, various pieces remain of Eates and Adams’ detailed preparatory correspondence

The programme seemingly opened on the line, ‘You are looking at a model of the rampars of Maiden Castle in Dorset, with the model (resting on a turntable) figured as the sole focus of the first shot.

Subsequent shots showed other models, two air photos, a map, chart of dates, a diagram of stratification, a ground photo and an artefact photo. So significant was this material that the BBC was willing to insure it for more than £75, as well as to invest in the special shipping of a model prehistoric loom weight to the television studio,

Read more at Sara Perry's Blog:
https://saraperry.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/introducing-the-worlds-first-english-language-archaeology-tv-shows/
Update: the paper (Archaeology on Television, 1937) is currently free to download from here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14655187.2017.1283932
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    Re: Maiden Castle Archaeology on Television, 1937 - Sara Perry by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 October 2017
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    Andy B wrote: This is fascinating Sara, thanks for posting a readable copy of the paper too. I’m curious as to why you put ‘first English-language archaeology TV shows’ – do you know of earlier ones in another language?

    Sara P replied: Thank you so much 🙂 I really appreciate your kind words! I’ve written it as English language as I’m not entirely sure whether I can be confident in saying that they were the first in the world. Germany’s TV service was active before the BBC, and although I’m not aware of German Archaeology-related programmes, I feel it’s possible these could exist and would be worth investigating further.

    Just a note too, the journal has made the article free access to all via this link
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14655187.2017.1283932
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Re: Maiden Castle (Dorset) by Andy B on Tuesday, 03 October 2017
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Maiden Castle
The causewayed enclosure at Maiden Castle (AMIE uid 451864), circa 3.7 km southwest of Mount Pleasant, lies beneath the defences of the Early Iron Age hillfort. A Neolithic presence on the hill was long suspected (Oswald et al 2001, 11) but not confirmed until Mortimer Wheeler’s excavation campaign in the 1930s, and it was examined again during the 1985-6 excavations undertaken by Niall Sharples. Only a few ditch segments have been uncovered, so it is by no means definite that the causewayed enclosure matches the extent and shape of the first phase hillfort, but this seems a plausible assumption.

The causewayed enclosure featured two concentric circuits of interrupted ditch spaced up to 15 metres apart. The inner ditch enclosed an area of some 8 hectares. A bank barrow, built in a more or less east-west alignment, crossing the enclosure earthworks on their western side, measures some 546 metres in length and up to 17.5 metres in width, the long linear mound being flanked by a ditch on either side, each circa 5.5 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep. The barrow mound actually comprises 3 distinct segments, each on a slightly different alignment. It has been suggested that it may have started life as a long barrow located just outside the causewayed enclosure, though this remains conjecture at present. Recent re-evaluation of available radiocarbon dates using Bayesian analysis (Whittle et al 2011, 164-193) suggests that for the enclosure, construction began in the 36th century Cal BC and that the site may have been in use for no more than one or two generations. Dates from the eastern and central section of the long mound suggest it belongs to the 35th century Cal BC, and that the outer ditch at least of the causewayed enclosure had become filled up before the mound was constructed.

Ref: Sharples 1991 - not expanded on - oops!

Source:
http://research.historicengland.org.uk/redirect.aspx?id=6297|%20Mount%20Pleasant,%20Dorset:%20A%20Survey%20of%20the%20Neolithic%20%E2%80%98Henge%20Enclosure%E2%80%99%20and%20Associated%20Features
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Maiden Castle History by Andy B on Wednesday, 21 June 2017
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Neolithic Activity

The impressive Iron Age hillfort of Maiden Castle was not the first monument on the hilltop. Excavations have discovered a complex sequence of occupation, beginning over 6,000 years ago.

In the early Neolithic period, the hilltop was cleared of woodland and an oval enclosure of two segmented ditches was built on the eastern plateau. This causewayed enclosure, so-called because of the gaps between the ditches, was one of the earliest types of monuments in Britain.

Finds from excavations suggest that the enclosure was a symbolic space where people gathered to carry out specialised activities such as flint axe production.

Shortly after this enclosure went out of use, a long mound was constructed, flanked by two ditches. Nearly 550 metres long, this extraordinary ‘bank barrow’ can only just be seen today. This barrow possibly represented the ancestors of the community, and may have acted as a marker or boundary in the landscape.

Iron Age Defences

After a period of reduced activity, the first hillfort was constructed in the early Iron Age. Enclosed by a single rampart, it was built on top of the earlier enclosure.

The fort was later extended to the west to enclose more than double the original area. Throughout this period, extra ramparts were added and the inner rampart was heightened. The entrances to the fort became increasingly complex as more ramparts were added and gateways were redesigned.

More at
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/maiden-castle/history/
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Re: Maiden Castle (Dorset) Good Teaching Aid by AngieLake on Sunday, 10 May 2015
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Came across this site while looking for general barrows info:
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/files/Learning/pdf/south-dorset-ridgeway-teachers-pack.pdf
It included good images of Maiden Castle.
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Street View by coldrum on Thursday, 18 March 2010
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Maiden Castle Audio Guide by Andy B on Saturday, 13 February 2010
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You can download a short audio tour for Maiden Castle. It is designed to be played on an iPod, mobile phone or mp3 player so that you can listen to the guide as you walk around the site.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17836
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Re: Maiden Castle (Dorset) and Iron Age - Roman era temples. by AngieLake on Sunday, 11 January 2009
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On TV last night I watched Time Team uncover a similar temple (not far from St Albans) to the one I wrote about above.
They found two rectangular ones first by locating their position (2nd time lucky!), from an [1970s?] aerial photograph. Eventually they uncovered another, plus a very rare round temple. I was fascinated by this because of the 'Oval House' shrine at Maiden Castle, whose position took so long to verify in books and on the web.
Bearing in mind the way my non-stop dowsed route of the priest, or whoever, had walked around the Maiden Castle Romano-British rectangular temple's ambulatory, into the cella in the centre, then, without stopping, on to the oval house (shrine) a little higher uphill (and here he/she walked around it - or was that an ambulatory too?- before ending in its centre) I wondered if this happened at the Time Team one also.
Hope that makes sense! If not, check out the plan.
[All recorded on Meg P in dowsing plan: see instructions for access on 18.08.08 post above.]
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Re: Maiden Castle (Dorset) and Iron Age - Roman era temples. by AngieLake on Monday, 18 August 2008
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I've found some information on Iron Age temples at Maiden Castle in 'Holy Places of Celtic Britain'.
The author, Mick Sharp, also gives more details of later Roman additions.
Because we have no site pages for Roman era Britain, I'd like to make a note here of the circular pagan temple constructed of stone, within the foundations of an earlier Iron Age timber shrine, and tell readers how to access the site plan and a dowsing record of its position, together with photos of the existing temple.
This circular (or oval) temple was built in about 350 AD, when Christianity was the official Roman religion. A little later a Romano-Celtic temple was built just to the north-east. This is the ruin that we see in the NE section of Maiden Castle hillfort today.
(NB: Photos and a dowsing plan are posted under 'Roman Dorset' under 'Roman England' on Meg. Portal. Click on 'Find a Site' on top menu.)

Info on the position of the oval temple was found in 'Holy Places of Celtic Britain' by Mick Sharp, 1997, Blandford, a Cassel Imprint.
He writes:
"Three lines of massive ramparts, with complicated entrances at each end, defend the two knolls and shallow saddle of an E-W ridge. The initial eastern compound of the hillfort, built on the site of a Neolithic causewayed camp, contained several shrines and temples in use at various times from the early Iron Age through to the post-Roman period. The fort was stormed by Vespasian's troops around AD 45, leaving the inhabitants to bury their dead outside the east gate in shallow graves cut through a layer of ashes. By 60 the whole population of the fort had moved down to the Roman town of Dorchester. Around 350 - when Christianity was the official Roman religion - a circular pagan temple was built, in stone, within the foundations of an Iron Age timber shrine. A little later a Romano-Celtic temple was built just to the north-east. A tiny two-roomed structure nearby has been interpreted as the pagan priest's house or a later Christian chapel.
There was a strong reaction in rural districts against the rapid rise of Christianity in towns, and among the aristocracy and moneyed classes (the term pagan comes from the Latin paganus, meaning a country-dweller or rustic peasant)." ..... [here there was a blip in the typed text..words were omitted, 'til:]
"central shrine is surrounded by an ambulatory, both with doorways facing south-east down a pathway to the fort's eastern entrance. An infant foundation burial was found between the inner and outer walls on the north-east (rear right in the photograph [supplied in book]). The ramparts of the eastern enclosure were refurbished to create a temenos and stone gateway for the temples. One hundred and seventy-one coins dated to 350-60 came from the circular temple. From the Romano-Celtic temple came a plaque of Minerva, a nude female figurine and a silvered bronze triple-horned bull with (originally) three female figures on its back: a myth or cult image, illustrating shape-shifting or the multiple aspects of a deity."

Talking generally of the pre-Roman shrines in Britain:
"... The shrines all faced the eastern gateway, from where they would have appeared on the skyline.
Shrines at Maiden Castle (Dorset) stood at the end of a roadway leading from the eastern gateway. The overwhelming majority of shrine entrances face eastwards, suggesting that to approach from or look towards that direction had important symbolic or ritual significance: perhaps the deity or priest needed to see the first glimpse of dawn or moonrise.
Iron Age shrines provided a focus for cult activity, which mainly took place in the open. Although it might have been possible to squash around thirty people into the larger ones, a shrine was an intimate private place for a priest-attendant, supplicant and the presence of a deity. The ground area increased in the Roman period to accommodate the more public ceremonies, but the majority of worshippers still participated out

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English Heritage: Free Sites Unlocked by Andy B on Tuesday, 09 January 2007
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Of the 400 sites that English Heritage looks after, more than 240 are unstaffed and open to the public at all reasonable times. Free Sites Unlocked is a new English Heritage project seeking to improve the interpretation of these free sites. They are also improving their webpages by providing more information on the history of the sites and suggestions for further reading.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.10612
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Official Maiden Castle MP3 Audio Tour now available by Anonymous on Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Free download from English Heritage:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.10669
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Re: Maiden Castle (Dorset) by Bunnyhugger on Friday, 30 April 2004
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Condition:5
Ambience:5
Access:5
Great atmosphere. Great views. When you look at the earthworks, you are just awestruck by the ability of the people who constructed the place. A jaw-dropping site.
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Re: Maiden Castle (Dorset) by Anonymous on Thursday, 29 January 2004
"It is varied with protuberances, which from hereabouts have the animal aspects of warts, wens, knuckles and hops. It might indeed be likened to an enormous many-limbed organism of anti-deluvian times".
Thomas Hardy
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