Monument details
| HER Number: | 970/1 |
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| Type of record: | Archaeology |
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| Name: | Woodhouse Hillfort 500m W of Mickledale |
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Summary
This Iron age Hillfort is a Scheduled Monument. A Hillfort is defensive settlement created using a combination of earthworks and landscape features such as hill tops and cliff edges. This Hillfort is situated on the central Sandstone Ridge in Cheshire. The site is very steep sided on the south and west sides so artificial defences were only needed on the North and east sides. They survive as an irregular stone and earth bank, now broken in many places so there is no obvious entrance. It is a univallate hillffot, meaning that it has a single defensive rampart. The summit of Woodhouses Hill is heavily wooded and crossed by numerous footpaths.
| Parish: | FRODSHAM, VALE ROYAL, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER |
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Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Bank-defensive, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- DYKE (DEFENCE) (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- HILLFORT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- SETTLEMENT (Early Iron Age - 800 BC to 401 BC)
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 25694: Hillfort on Woodhouse Hill 500m west of Mickledale |
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