Eddisbury Hill Fort

Eddisbury Hill Fort
Peter I. Vardy · Public domain

Eddisbury Hill Fort, also known as Castle Ditch, is an Iron Age hill fort near Delamere, Cheshire, northern England. Constructed before 200–100 BC, it is the largest and most complex of the seven hill forts in Cheshire[1]. The site was expanded during 1–50 AD and slighted by the Romans in the 1st century AD[1]. It was reoccupied in the 6th–8th centuries AD, and an Anglo-Saxon burh was probably established at Eddisbury in 914[1]. Medieval and post-medieval quarrying and farming damaged the site[1].

TypeFortress/citadel
Period500 BC - 1 AD
CountryEngland
Coordinates53.2202° N, 2.6702° W

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