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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Uffington Castle
Country: England County: Oxfordshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Wantage  Nearest Village: Woolstone
Map Ref: SU299864  Landranger Map Number: 174
Latitude: 51.575678N  Longitude: 1.569935W
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
0No data.
 4 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
0No data.
 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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Uffington Castle
Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, In the ditch (Vote or comment on this photo)
This hillfort on the chalk is close to the Uffington White Horse and linked to Wayland's Smithy by the Ridgeway. With a single bank and ditch, it originally had a ring of sarsen stones as a parapet wall. There are two oval mounds, one containing a large number of Roman dead. Approached from the B4507, there are magnificent views.
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Uffington Castle submitted by h_fenton : Uffington Castle from the North East. Kite Aerial Photograph, 19 April 2009 (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uffington Castle submitted by SteveC : View of the fort from the south, with Dragon's Hill and the Manger in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uffington Castle submitted by SolarMegalith : The original western entrance to the hillfort and view towards the north (photo taken on February 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uffington Castle submitted by camperman : Uffington Castle and White Horse viewed from the east. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uffington Castle submitted by Postman : The southern ramparts looking west (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Uffington Castle submitted by SolarMegalith : SW part of the hillfort with perfectly preserved ditch and rampart (photo taken on February 2011).

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Uffington Castle submitted by h_fenton : The eastern site of Uffington Castle with the trigpoint, viewed from the North. Oblique Kite Aerial Photograph, 19 April 2009 @ 7.09pm

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Uffington Castle submitted by MattImpey : An early Iron Age Hillfort in Oxfordshire

Uffington Castle Neolithic long barrow
Uffington Castle Neolithic long barrow submitted by Horatio : I totally forgot about getting an arial shot of this barrow but you can see it (the outline) on this image, the white chalk path is literally pointing at it between the horse and the fort. I converted this photo to black and white as it stands out that little bit better.

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Uffington Castle submitted by Horatio : A view of the Iron Age fort from close to the ridgeway. It covers about 32,000 Sqm and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch. Coins of the Dobunni tribe have been found in the vicinity but the vale of the white horse seems to have been in the unhabitated divide between the tribes of the Dobunni and Atrebates and Uffington Castle falls within the territory of the later south of th... (1 comment)

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Uffington Castle submitted by Postman : The western entrance from the Ridgeway.

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Uffington Castle submitted by Postman : Looking north. 15.52pm 1st February 2020.

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Uffington Castle submitted by Postman : Steady !

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Uffington Castle submitted by DrewParsons : Uffington Castle photographed during a fleeting visit to the UK in April 2015

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Uffington Castle submitted by h_fenton : The northwest corner of Uffington Castle. Low light shows up the dumped nature of the counterscarp bank, interestingly some of the dumps of material seem to go a long way into the ditch. Oblique Kite Aerial Photograph, 19 April 2009 @ 7.13pm (3 comments)

Uffington Castle Neolithic long barrow
Uffington Castle Neolithic long barrow submitted by h_fenton : Neolithic long barrow, 70m north of Uffington Castle Oblique Kite Aerial Photograph from the southwest, you can see the surrounding ditches, in the distance to the left you can see Uffington White Horse. 26 April 2009 Apologies for the quality of the picture, it is a bit blurred and the only photo I have of this site with a bit of space around and some people in for scale.

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, Looking over the southern part of the fort

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, Eastern side, Looking north towards the trig point

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle Ditch

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle Entrance

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle Defences

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, Looking south west over the southern entrance

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, Looking over the forts ditch into the interior

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, The south east side looking north east

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Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup : Uffington Castle, The south eastern side looking south west

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Re: Uffington Castle by LeFey on Friday, 21 February 2020
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These are fantastic, thank you for sharing.
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Problem with the dating of the Ridgeway as a prehistoric trackway by Andy B on Wednesday, 22 November 2017
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0.6km from here, on the present line of the Ridgeway is this site:

HER Number: 7547
Name: Early Iron Age Linear Ditch
Grid Reference: SU 301 858
Parish: UFFINGTON, VALE OF WHITE HORSE, OXFORDSHIRE
Monument Types
LINEAR EARTHWORK (Early Iron Age - 800 BC to 401 BC)

http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MOX9919&resourceID=1033

Quoting: "The ditch has proved difficult to date, with hypotheses that it was dug in Late Bronze Age (and kept open until the Roman period) or it was dug in Roman times (and filled soon after it was dug). The deliberate infilling in Roman times may have been to allow the Ridgeway to pass over the line of the linear ditch."

Source: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 2003. Uffington White Horse and its Landscape: Investigations at White Horse Hill Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill, 1993-4.. Thames Valley Landscapes Volume 18. pp127-129. [Monograph / SOX1745]

In other words the line of the Ridgeway trackway cuts across ditches of a Bronze Age field system and a Romano-British farmstead. This means that the Ridgeway could not have run on its present course between the Late Bronze Age and Roman periods because of these intercutting features.
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Ridgeway Hillforts talk with Professor Gary Lock, 25th Oct 2012, Marlow by Andy B on Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Ridgeway Hillforts
Date and time: 25 Oct 2012 - 20:00
Location: Liston Road, Marlow
Speaker: Professor Gary Lock, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Oxford
Organised by: AiM
Cost: Members £2.50 non members £3.50 to include refreshments

Uffington Hill Fort from the Air

Uffington Castle hillfort. This Ridgeway hillfort was constructed at the end of an earlier linear ditch in the 7th century BC with a single circuit of box rampart and opposing eastern and western entrances.

The speaker will be Professor Gary Lock, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Oxford University, who will be talking about the historical discoveries made along the Ridgeway.

http://www.archaeologyinmarlow.org.uk/upcoming-events/ridgeway-hillforts/
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Street View by coldrum on Saturday, 27 March 2010
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Re: Uffington Castle information by Andy B on Saturday, 14 July 2007
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More on recent excavations here:

http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/research/research_projects/ridgeway/uffington
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Re: Uffington Castle information by JimChampion on Sunday, 02 January 2005
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From the National Trust information board at the site:
The hillfort was first built about 2700 years ago. When originally constructed the surrounding defensive ditch was about 3m deeper than it appears today. The ramparts were topped by timber palisade, and later a wall of sarsen stones which would have formed a daunting obstacle. Its sheer size, encompassing 8 acres, leaves one to wonder how long it took to construct using the manpower and fairly rudimentary tools available.
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Re: Uffington Castle by Anonymous on Sunday, 16 May 2004
Condition:4
Ambience:5
Access:2 I travel past the site on a daily basis and am amazed by the number of coaches that attempt to gain access to car park... the general access to the site by road is a B-class road, which is adequate for two cars to pass, but it gets intereseting if you meet a lorry or coach coming around one of the many blind bends in the road!
Access to the car park is via a single track road with passing places, and there is also a small disabled car park accessed via a seperate entry off the B road which is again single track with passing places.
The village of Uffington boasts a small museum which offers the visitor much information regarding the legends of the white horse area, and festivals and occurrences at the site at the site, and there is a country fair at Uffington over the August bank holiday weekend.
I love the site as a start for walks along the ridgeway, and also for general recreation a picnics with the family.
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