Kelsborrow Castle

Kelsborrow Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, northern England [1]. In the 19th century, a bronze palstave was recovered from the site [1]. Along with Eddisbury and Oakmere, Kelsborrow forms a small cluster of Iron Age hill forts within 3 miles of each other, near the Mouldsworth Gap [1]. As well as being a hill fort, Kelsborrow Castle is a type of promontory fort, as it exploits the natural steep slopes of the area to create a defensive site [1]. The site is surrounded by an artificial bank and ditch, although there is a gap in the ditch for around 400 ft in the west [1]. The best surviving parts of the bank are 6 ft high, and the distance between the outer edge of the ditch and the inner edge of the rampart is 100 ft [1]. The defences cover 1.75 acres, and enclose an area of 7.25 acres [1]. Geophysical surveys and small-scale archaeological excavations in 1973 and 1996 indicated that there may be structures such as storage pits buried within the hill fort [1].