Castle Old Fort
| Castle Old Fort | |
|---|---|
  Location within West Midlands county | |
| General information | |
| Type | Hill fort |
| Town or city | Walsall Wood |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 52°37′37″N 1°54′34″W / 52.62707°N 1.90943°W |
| Construction started | Iron Age |
| Technical details | |
| Size | 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) |
Castle Old Fort is a small Iron Age hill fort near Walsall Wood, in the West Midlands, England. Its interior is now occupied by a house.
The fort covers 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) acres in an ovoid shape, measuring 170 m (560 ft) from north to south and 130 m (430 ft) from east to west. It has an earth rampart surrounded by a ditch, with an entrance in the south east. There is some evidence that there may originally have been a second line of defences comprising a bank and a ditch.[1]
The seventeenth century archaeologist Robert Plot reported findings of flint arrowheads, Roman pottery and Roman coins of Otho, Domitian and Nero, and the existence of a second entrance in the north west of the fort, in an area that has since been destroyed by quarrying.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Castle Old Fort". Pastscape - National Monuments Record. English Heritage. Retrieved 2009-08-14.