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Photo Pages: Maiden Castle (Cheshire) - Hillfort in England in Cheshire
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Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 30 December 2003 Page Views: 6874
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 Site Name: Maiden Castle (Cheshire) Country: England County: Cheshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Nantwich Nearest Village: Bickerton
Map Ref: SJ498529 Landranger Map Number: 117
Latitude: 53.070963N Longitude: 2.750686W
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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   Maiden Castle (Cheshire) submitted by vicky
Hillfort in Cheshire
One of a number of hillforts along the Mid Cheshire Ridge, Maiden Castle has fantastic views over the Dee valley to the west. Now in the care of the National Trust, the fort lies at 211m above seal level and is defended on most sites by cliffs, apart from to the south and east where two ramparts protect the more gently sloping ground. The ramparts can be clearly seen but do become overgrown with bracken in the summer.
An entrance lies two thirds of the way along the ramparts and excavations in 1980 revealed two gateposts here. Excavations early in the century in the 1930s showed that the inner rampart was constructed during one phase and composed of sand and timber clad with dry-stone walling. The outer rampart, however, was more complex. It began life as a timber palisade, which was replaced by a ‘dump bank’ and eventually revetted with stone. Very few finds were produced during excavation apart from a small sherd from an Iron Age jar and a fragment of iron.
Access
The hillfort can be easily accessed by following the Sandstone Trail from the National Trust car park at GR: SJ494525 The walk is fairly easy apart from the last few hundred metres where the ground rises quite sharply. Well worth a visit.
References
D.M.Longley “Prehistory” in C.R.Elrington (ed) “The Victoria History of the County of Chester, volume 1, Oxford University Press (1987)
W.J.Varley “Maiden Castle, Bickerton”, Liverpool Annals Volume 22
W.J.Varley “Further excavations at Maiden Castle, Bickerton”, Liverpool Annals, Volume 23.
J.J. Taylor “Maiden Castle, Bickerton”, Cheshire Arch Bulletin Volume 7.
 Maiden Castle (Cheshire) submitted by PaulM
One of the double rows of ramparts of the plateau fort of Maiden Castle which cuts off the sloping sandstone summit of Bickerton Hill, one of the highest points on the southern end of the Mid-Cheshire Ridge at 211m (692ft) above sea level.
 Maiden Castle (Cheshire) submitted by PaulM
Approximately two thirds of the way along the ramparts lies this inturned entrance, designed to protect the fort’s point of greatest weakness. The entrance narrows from circa 5 metres at the outer rampart to 2.5 metres at the end of the inner rampart and was protected by a gate about two thirds of the way down, the postholes of which were discovered during excavations in 1934 and 1935.
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Re: Maiden Castle (Cheshire) (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 01 November 2005 | hi my name is susan bickerton i live in hampshire, born and bred in irlam manchester where my folks live and some in tarporley iam desperately trying to find out any info about bickerton.
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