Day of reckoning for Shropshire hillfort
A 10-year battle to protect the landscape of one of Britain’s most important Iron Age hillforts from widely opposed development comes to a head this […]
Articles by Old Oswestry
PRESS RELEASE: Shropshire MP backs calls for hillfort housing decision to go to planning committee
Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort by calling-in the planning application for […]
PRESS RELEASE: Planners are not listening, claim hillfort campaigners
Campaigners have slammed the local planning system as they rally against a new bid to build in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort. HOOOH has […]
NEWS: Small excavation at OId Oswestry Hillfort 20-23 Sep 2022
Oswestry Heritage Gateway will be undertaking a small excavation from 20th – 23rd September 2022 to re-examine a roundhouse found by Professor Varley in 1940. […]
Old Oswestry – Geophysical Investigations 2021
Abstract This report describes the results of an archaeological geophysical investigation undertaken at the site of Old Oswestry Hillfort near Oswestry, Shropshire. The investigations were […]
PRESS RELEASE: MP visits Old Oswestry Hillfort to hear residents’ concerns over nearby housing bid
North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan visited Old Oswestry hillfort earlier this week (3 May 2022) in response to residents’ concerns over plans for a luxury […]
PRESS RELEASE: Revised housing plans do nothing to avert terminal damage to archaeological jewel
Revised housing plans do nothing to avert terminal damage to archaeological jewel, say campaigners. After a two-year silence, developers are mounting a fourth bid to […]
PRESS RELEASE: Excavations at Old Oswestry Hillfort
With permission from Historic England a team of local volunteers from English Heritage and Oswestry Heritage Gateway (OHG) have just completed a week long dig […]
PRESS RELEASE: Woolly friends keep conservation efforts going on Shropshire hillfort during coronavirus lockdown
The country may have been on lockdown since March, but landscape maintenance at Old Oswestry hillfort has been boosted by the arrival of a new […]
PRESS RELEASE: Outcry as Historic England’s defence folds over major housing development in setting of one of Britain’s outstanding hillforts
– Historic England deals late blow to community’s 8-year fight to save the setting of one of Britain’s outstanding Iron Age hillforts from housing development […]