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Badbury Rings

Dorset, England · Atlas EN3580

Badbury Rings is a contour fort in Shapwick, Dorset, England.

Other names on the record: Badbury Camp.

It is recorded as extant, with a multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank and berm, and an enclosed area of 6.9 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a knoll or outcrop and at 97 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken.

Dating evidence is recorded for 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800 (Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1002679).

Location

Atlas number
EN3580 (3580)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Dorset
Historic county
Dorset
Parish, community, or townland
Shapwick
National Grid reference
ST964030
Latitude
50.82639
Longitude
-2.05230
Altitude
97 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
3
Enclosed area
6.9 ha
Footprint
20 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and berm
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
In-turned (North east); Oblique (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Barbican (North west); In-turned (North west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
knoll or outcrop
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Water source
spring

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
Dating evidence
Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
quarry hollows
Interior excavation
roundhouses
Finds
pottery and lithics
Investigations
Other (1822); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (1965); Other (1966); Earthwork Survey (1998); Geophysical Survey (2000); Geophysical Survey (2006); Other (2016); 1st Identified Written Reference (1538-1543); 1st Identified Written Reference

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1002679
HER
Dorset MDO5994
National record
record ST 90 SE 45; monument 209560
Wikidata
Q798831

Sources

References

  1. Fowler, P.J. 1965. A Roman barrow at Knob's Crook, Woodlands, Dorset. Ant J, XLV, 22-52.
  2. Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
  3. Hearne, T.1768. The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary: Publish'd from the Original MS. in the Bodleian Library by Thomas Hearne M.A., Oxford.
  4. Ovenden-Wilson, S. 1998. Badbury Rings Dorset: geophysical survey, Report Geophysical Surveys of Bradford.
  5. National Trust 2000-2001. Note, The National Trust annual archaeological review 9, 2000-2001.
  6. Papworth, M. 2001. Evaluation excavation, Badbury Romano-Celtic temple, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 122, 148-150.
  7. Papworth, M. 2005. Excavation and geophysical survey at Badbury Rings 2005: interim report, National Trust archaeological reports.
  8. Papworth, M. 2011. The Search for the Durotriges: Dorset and the West Country in the Late Iron Age, The History Press.
  9. RCHME 1972. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 4, North Dorset, London: RCHME.