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Iron Age Hillfort and Roundhouse near Chester

About 25 miles south of Chester, near the Welsh border, lies one of the best-preserved hillforts in Britain: Old Oswestry.

Old Oswestry Hillfort today (aerial view)

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Old Oswestry as it might have looked in the Iron Age

old-oswestry-hillfort-recon.jpgBoth images from https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/old-oswestry-hillfort/history/

 

At nearby Park Hall Farm, a replica roundhouse has been built, to show what a typical Iron Age home would have looked like.

Click the photos below for a look inside!

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