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Old Sarum (Salisbury)

United Kingdom / England / Salisbury
 castle, archaeological site, neolithic age, hillfort, iron age
Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England, with evidence of human habitation as early as 3000 BC. It sits on a hill about two miles (3 km) north of modern Salisbury on the west side of the road that leads to Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain.

Old Sarum was initially a hill fort strategically situated on the conjunction of two trade routes and the River Avon, Hampshire. The hill fort is broadly oval in shape and measures ≈1300 feet (400 m) in length and ≈1200 feet (360 m) in width, consisting of a single circuit of bank and ditch with an entrance in the eastern end.

Among the earliest records, Old Sarum is described as a city of the Belgae, and its historical details have proved a boon for the researches of topographical illustrators.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sarum
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Coordinates:   51°5'36"N   1°48'16"W

Comments

  • WikiMapper
    During the changes at Parliament during the Victorian era, Old Sarum was a 'rotten borough'. It was completely uninhabited, yet it was still allowed to send 2 MPs to Parliament, and the system had not changed since the middle ages. It the famous of the rotten boroughs. Another example was Dulwich, a city on the East Anglia coast which thrived during the middle ages, but due to costal erosion, it no longer existed.
  • WikiMapper
    Dunwich not Dulwich.
  • santanupal
    Old Sarum: archaeologists reveal plan of medieval city. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30300837
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