What is recorded here
Barbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on Barbury Hill, built around 500 BC. It has two deep ditches, high ramparts, and a wide grassy interior that still holds the shape of old defences. The land has been walked, farmed, fought over, and watched from ever since.
Barbury Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Swindon. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
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- Recorded date
- ~500 BC
- Operator
- Swindon Borough Council
Places near here
Three bowl barrows: part of a barrow cemetery west of Barbury CastleScheduled monument · 441 yd
Iron Age roundhouse at Barbury Castle Country ParkCastle, fort or tower · 665 yd
Barbury HillMountain / peak · 970 yd
Milstone at Upper Herdswick FarmListed building · 1036 yd
Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop DownScheduled monument · 1164 yd
Bowl barrow, south-east of Barbury Castle FarmAncient burial place · 1567 yd
Walker's PlantationWood · 1.3 mi
The Ridgeway, Hackpen HillTrack (period Unassigned) · 1.5 mi
Four Mile ClumpForest · 1.5 mi
The RidgewayVisitor information · 1.6 mi
Hackpen White HorseHeritage attraction · 1.6 mi
Hackpen HillMountain / peak · 1.7 miOther information
Photo: Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0