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offering the site natural defences. Ramparts were thrown up around the south-west and north sides of the site, creating an arc, and a ditch was created in front of the rampart. The bank survives to a height of 6 ft (1.8 m) and, at its deepest point, the ditch is now 6 ft (1.8 m) deep although it was originally 10 ft (3.0 m) deep; the distance between the inner edge of the bank and the outer edge of the ditch is 100 ft (30 m). The depth of the ditch is not uniform, indicating that either the hill fort was unfinished or perhaps bearing testament to an attempt by the inhabitants of Oakmere hill fort to re-excavate and deepen the ditch. The entrance to the site was in the southern end of the defences and is similar to the entrances of
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James Forde-Johnston; the excavation focused on the site's southern defences and showed that the ditch was 50 ft (15 m) wide at its zenith and originally 10 ft (3.0 m) deep in places. The site has been disturbed and there are two modern breaks in the defences. The structure was
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Today, the waters of the mere are 10 ft (3.0 m) below the defences at the south-western end of the site, with a 35 ft (11 m) gap between the edge of the mere and the defences; however when the hill fort was built the water-level would have been higher and closer to the scarp,
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believes that population increase still played a role and has stated that " provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress burst out into open warfare. But I wouldn't see them as having been built because there was a state of war. They would be functional as
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defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".
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The Place-names of Dorset: Part I the Isle of Purbeck, the Hundreds of Rowbarrow, Hasler, Winfrith, Culliford Tree, Bere Regis, Barrow, Puddletown, St George
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The Wessex Hillforts Project: Extensive Survey of Hillfort Interiors in Central Southern England
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Varley, William Jones (1936), "Recent investigations into the origins of Cheshire hill-forts",
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Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the
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Forde-Johnston, James (1962), "The Iron Age Hillforts of Lancashire and Cheshire",
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is on its own in the south); Oakmere hill fort is in the southern group with
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in 1995, giving Oakmere protection against unauthorised change.
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Oakmere hill fort is located in Cheshire
Coordinates
53°12′22″N 2°38′08″W / 53.206022°N 2.635518°W / 53.206022; -2.635518
Iron Age
hill fort
Cheshire
Scheduled Ancient Monument
first millennium BC
Archaeologist
Barry Cunliffe
hill forts in England
Maiden Castle
Eddisbury hill fort
Kelsborrow Castle
grid reference
SJ576678
mere
Bradley
Helsby
Kelsborrow
excavated
archaeologist
Scheduled Ancient Monument
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Scheduled Monuments in Cheshire (pre-1066)
Historic England
"Oakmere promontory fort on the east bank of Oakmere 300m north west of Corner Farm (1013291)"
National Heritage List for England

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