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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Kenwalch's Castle FortCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Hillfort
Map Ref: ST74753352
Latitude: 51.100422N Longitude: 2.361989W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Hillfort in Wiltshire
Kenwalch's Castle Fort is a large univallate hillfort situated on the north end of a ridge in the hills of the Somerset/Wiltshire border. The fort has an internal area of 1.6ha and is sub-rectangular in shape, drawing to a point on the north - a plan determined by the natural contours of the hill. The earthworks consist of a bank and external ditch or terrace. They are most massive on the south against the rising ground, with the bank up to 2m high and the ditch 2m deep outside it. On the north tip the bank is 0.5m high within a ditch 2m deep. The west and east sides make use of the natural slope to form a drop of 2m-3m from a bank 0.5m high to a ditch 0.5m deep. Along much of the steep west side the ditch becomes a broad terrace 3m-4m wide. The original entrances to the fort are likely to have been in the centre of the north and south sides, at which points today a minor road enclosed by banks now runs through. The present gaps are wider than the road, suggesting a former trackway along the ridge with a broader course. There is a second gap on the NNW adjacent to that through which the road runs, and this may be the original entrance gap. An entrance in the south-west corner of the fort is unlikely to be original and probably relates to the creation of a track running through it, around the inside of the rampart, and through the NNW gap parallel to the road. This track at some points runs along a slight terrace inside the ramparts. There is also a small gap in the bank on the south-east.
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