Monument details
| HER Number: | 867 |
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| Type of record: | Archaeology |
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| Name: | Burh at Castle Ditch, Eddisbury |
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Summary
This Late Bronze age/ Iron Age hillfort site had been reoccupied in the 4th-6th centuries AD. A series of huts with stone kerbs were built over the ruined inner rampart . Each hut was associated with a thick deposit of carbon; burnt bones; daub and stick impressions; iron slag and much more crude thich pottery wirh thumb-print and nail impressions. The site was later to be the burh (fortified stronghold) built by Aethelflaed and her brother Edward the Elder in 914 AD. The site is a Scheduled Monument.
| Parish: | DELAMERE, VALE ROYAL, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER |
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Monument Types
- BURH (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- CHARCOAL AREA (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- HOUSE (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- WALL (Wall-stone some (1-100) Early Medieval/Dark Age - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 25692: Eddisbury Hillfort East Of Old Pale Farm |
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