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Helping Hillforts and Earthwork Castles
Welcome to these pages about the Helping Hillforts and Earthwork Castles Project. Here you will find out about our activities and events.
Helping Hillforts and Earthwork Castles
Roundton hillfort
The ‘Helping Hillforts and Earthwork Castles’ (HH&EC) project aims to improve access, interpretation and conservation of key hillforts and earthwork castles with expert and volunteer help.
The Archaeology Service, Shropshire Council, and the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust are working together to support the HH&EC project, which is part of the Lands between Lands programme of the Stiperstones and Corndon Hill Country Landscape Partnership Scheme.
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Hillforts
Shropshire’s outstanding prehistoric monuments are its Iron Age hillforts. These monuments, which dominate the landscape with their massive ramparts and ditches, are defended settlements, and perhaps reflect an increasing need for security in unsettled times.
Earthwork castles
In the late Saxon and Conquest periods much of west and southwest Shropshire was disputed land and had been subject to Welsh raiding. Many of the manors in the area were referred to in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as being or having been “waste”. In the late 11th or early 12th century motte and bailey castles were constructed in the area to provide a defence against this Welsh raiding, to control the local population, and possibly also to provide a base for Norman expansion into Wales.
About the HH&EC Project
The project will focus on two hillforts, one (Callow Hill) in the northern part of the LPS area, and one (Roundton hillfort) in the southern part, and four of the earthwork motte and bailey castles (Castle Pulverbatch, Hyssington, More and Wilmington).
The project will work with volunteers to carry out conservation tasks on some of these sites and carry out earthwork surveys and documentary research on others.
Our events
During the course of the project we will be carrying out a variety of events at some of the project sites. For example, at Callow Hill Hillfort and Castle Pulverbatch we will be working with local volunteers to clear scrub and vegetation from these monuments. And at Roundton hillfort we are carrying out a variety of survey tasks with volunteers.
For more information about our events and how you can get involved, please follow the link under Related Webpages to our HHEC Events page
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More information
Most of the sites in the HH&EC project are on private land, and not all are accessible by Public Rights of Way. Before visiting any site, please ask landowners' permission.
For more information and to get involved please contact Joe Penfold:
email: joe.penfold@shropshire.gov.uk
tel: 01938 561741
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