What is recorded here

Mud, muscle and marrow built Uffington Castle before written history gave the hill a name. Its single bank still catches the light on Whitehorse Hill, marking the ridge where people watched, waited and lived. The earth remembers more than pride: a castle may be a house, a shelter or a warning, but it is not nothing.

The National Heritage List for England records Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Built during the Iron Age, Uffington Castle is an ancient hillfort located on Whitehorse Hill in Oxfordshire. It is important as a well-preserved example of prehistoric defensive earthworks and is associated with the broader archaeological landscape of the Ridgeway, a major ancient trackway.

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