Maiden Castle Results

Last Saturday saw over 169 runners (18 from our Club) invade the rampart of Maiden Castle.  This is largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Britain. The castle was first laid out in 600BC over the remains of a Neolithic settlement. During the following centuries the hill fort was extended and additional defences thrown up around it.

The vast multiple ramparts enclose an area the size of 50 football pitches, and the site was home to several hundred people in the Iron Age (800 BC - 43 AD). Excavations here have revealed that occupation of this hilltop began over 6,000 years ago, in the Neolithic period. In AD43 it was taken by the Roman army and its inhabitants moved to the new town of Durnovaria, modern Dorchester.

Poole Runners won the  Ladies Team Prize (Becky, Janice and Hannah). Janice was also, on her birthday,  first over 50 lady. Pete Ferenczy and Chris Guerrier had a close fought battle with just four seconds in it at the finish