Uffington Castle
Uffington Castle is a hill fort in Oxfordshire . It covers about 3 hectares. The historic entrance is on the east side. Another entrance, which was later closed, can still be found on the west side. The Ridgeway can be overlooked from the complex . About three hundred meters to the northeast is the Uffington White Horse .
The facility is assigned to the early Iron Age . Finds from excavations suggest that it was erected between 800 and 700 BC.
literature
- David Miles, Simon Palmer, Gary Lock, Chris Gosden, Anne Marie Cromarty: Uffington White Horse and its Landscape: Investigations at White Horse Hill, Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill, Ashbury, 1993-4 , Oxford Archeology, 2003, ISBN 0-947816-77-1
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 29.2 " N , 1 ° 34 ′ 11.8" W.