The Grey Arrows 2nd Annual Birthday Competition

Something 100 Years Old - Old Oswestry Hill Fort. Taken this morning around 8am, Oswestry, Shropshire.
Probably a little bit of overkill on the 100 year front :grinning:
Old Oswestry was built and occupied during the Iron Age (800 BC to AD 43) and is one of the best-preserved hillforts in Britain. During this period Britain was divided into numerous tribal territories, and the hillfort was probably a stronghold and principal settlement for one of these. A fine example of a ‘multi-vallate’ or multiple rampart hillfort, it is one of a dense band of hillforts in eastern Wales and the Marches. It remained in use for almost 1,000 years.

“they don’t build them like they used to!”

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