Location
- Atlas number
- EN3585 (3585)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tarrant Keyneston
- National Grid reference
- ST91850590
- Latitude
- 50.85258
- Longitude
- -2.11690
- Altitude
- 107 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.2 ha, 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, Morphology/Earthwork/Typology, and Other
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (1893); Excavation (1957); Excavation (1964); LiDAR Survey (2006); Other (2016); Geophysical Survey (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002718
- HER
- Dorset MDO5018
- National record
- record ST 90 NW 13; monument 209339
- Wikidata
- Q31115863
Sources
References
- Farrar, R.A.H. 1954. Archaeological fieldwork in Dorset in 1953 and 1954. Recent finds at Buzbury Rings, Tarrant Keynston, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 76, 94-95.
- Farrar, R.A.H. 1956. Archaeological fieldwork in Dorset, 1956. Miscellaneous discoveries and accessions, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 78, 91.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1958. Note on Excavations at Buzbury Rings, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 80, 107-108.
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-slope forts and related earthworks in South-Western England and South Wales, Archaeol J, 109, 1-22.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Radley, J. 1964. Occupation Remains at Buzbury Rings, Tarrant Keynston, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 86, 112-114
- RCHME 1972. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 4: north Dorset, No 16, 102-104, London: RCHME.
- Shattock M. 2006. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF A POSSIBLE NEOLITHIC MONUMENT AT BUZBURY RINGS, DORSET: RE-ASSESSMENT OF PREVIOUS WORK. Unpublished.