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Spettisbury Rings
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3607
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3607 (3607)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Spetisbury
- National Grid reference
- ST91490196
- Latitude
- 50.81725
- Longitude
- -2.12235
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Footprint
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North west); Hornwork (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (1958); Other (1966); Other (1991); Geophysical Survey (2006); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004563
- HER
- Dorset MDO4724
- National record
- record ST 90 SW 28; monument 209638
- Wikidata
- Q17642339
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Forde-Johnston, 1958. Note on Excavations at Spettisbury Ring, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 80, 108.
- Gresham, C.,A. 1939, Spettisbury Rings, Dorset, Arch J, 96, 114-31.
- Hawkes, C.F.C. 1940. An Iron Age torc from Spettisbury Rings, Dorset, Arch J, 97, 112-14.
- Hearne, C. 1991. Sturminster Marshall-Blandford St Mary Main, Archaeological Watching Brief, Wessex Archaeology.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, pt 2, 246-47, Central Dorset, London: RCHME.
- Wheeler D. 2006. AN EVALUATION OF COMPARATIVE GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES ON CHALKLAND HILLFORT INTERIORS; A CASE STUDY AT SPETTISBURY RINGS. Unpublished.