United Kingdom · fortification · 50°41'42.0"N 2°28'12.0"W
Maiden Castle is a fortification in United Kingdom, Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-050974 at 50.69500, -2.47000 (50°41'42.0"N 2°28'12.0"W).
Wikidata records a construction date of 599 BCE.
Recorded heritage designations: scheduled monument.
There are 87 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 592 within 25 km and 1,113 within 50 km. That density is itself the finding: this is not an isolated monument but part of a worked landscape.