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Buckland Rings
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3809
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3809 (3809)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lymington and Pennington
- National Grid reference
- SZ315968
- Latitude
- 50.76987
- Longitude
- -1.55468
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and lowland
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Geophysical Survey (1993); Other (2009); LiDAR Survey (2015); Excavation (1934-1935)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008706
- HER
- Hampshire 21843
- National record
- record SZ 39 NW 7; monument 459634
- Wikidata
- Q31117099
Sources
References
- Hawkes, C. F. C, 1937. The Excavation of Buckland Rings, Lymington, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc ,13, 124-164.
- Payne, A. 1993. Buckland Rings, Lymington, Hampshire: report on geophysical survey, AML 80/93, Ancient Monuments Laboratory.
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.