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Maiden Castle

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.

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The record

Pyramason IDPYR-050974
CountryUnited Kingdom
Classified asfortification
Coordinates50.69500, -2.47000
50°41'42.0"N 2°28'12.0"W
Sites within 25 km592
Sites within 50 km1,113

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Further reading

English Wikipedia  ·  Wikidata Q1232816