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<< Our Photo Pages >> Alfred's Castle - Hillfort in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 03 December 2002  Page Views: 12936

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Alfred's Castle
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.8 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: SU27738223  Landranger Map Number: 174
Latitude: 51.538295N  Longitude: 1.601575W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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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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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
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Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle submitted by diggers92 : Site in Oxfordshire: Grid Ref: SU277822 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Oxfordshire. Alfred’s Castle is a small enclosure that lies a couple of kilometres south of the Ridgeway. It has a large enclosure attached that shows as a cropmark, excavation showed this to be contemporary with the small enclosure, started c.6th century BC.

The hillfort was established within a series of late Bronze Age linear ditches and revealed much evidence for occupation within it. In the late first century AD a Romano-British farmhouse was built within the abandoned prehistoric enclosure.
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Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle submitted by diggers92 : The causeway entrance. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle submitted by camperman : Small univallate enclosure with good surviving rampart and ditch. Excavations have shown occupation from 5th to 3rd century BC. Later Romano-British farmhouse dating from 1st to 3rd century AD. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle submitted by diggers92 : A view of the ramparts, facing West. Liddington Castle is just over the horizon. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle submitted by diggers92 : A view of the site from Russley Downs. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alfred's Castle
Alfred's Castle submitted by diggers92 : Site in Oxfordshire: Grid Ref: SU277822 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Alfred's Castle by Andy B on Saturday, 14 July 2007
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Lots more on this site from recent excavations detailed here:
http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/research/research_projects/ridgeway/alfreds
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