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Castle Rings, Donhead St Mary
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN0419
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0419 (419)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Donhead St. Mary
- National Grid reference
- ST88762509
- Latitude
- 51.02501
- Longitude
- -2.16153
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 5.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1812); 1st Identified Written Reference (1812); Other (1997); Other (1887-1888); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005698
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI170
- National record
- record ST 82 NE 5; monument 206321
- Wikidata
- Q31116881
Sources
References
- Colt Hoare, R.W. 1812. The ancient history of Wiltshire, I, London: Miller, 253.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 265.
- Sumner, H. 1913: Ancient earthworks in Cranborne Chase, 23-4.