Monument record MDO47815 - Enclosure, Badbury Rings, Shapwick

RCHME survey during April-June 1993 recorded the remains of a prominent scarp within the interior of Badbury Rings hillfort. The scarp, ranging in height from c4m on the SW to 0.9m on the N, is set back some 30m from the inner rampart and is roughly concentric to it. The scarp is on or marks the edge of the gravel cap to the chalk and part of it may be natural in origin. However, it has been utilised and remnants of a bank can be traced for about 55m along its southern course. The scarp is very irregular in appearance and it's inner face has been considerably damaged by quarrying into the Tertiary deposits, especially on the SE side. It is also affected in part by the undulating dip-slope of the chalk and by at least two spring lines emanating from below the summit. An accompanying ditch, showing as a very slight scarp, up to 6m wide, is present on the downhill side.

A full field survey report is available in NMR Archives. (1)

<1> Donachie, J D, 1994, RCHME Field Survey Report: Badbury Rings Hillfort, Shapwick, Dorset (Monograph). SDO19358.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1061623 (Index). SDO14738.

Badbury Rings Hillfort (1993)

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1182419 (Index). SDO14738.

Badbury Rings (1998)/ink survey

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 918802 (Index). SDO14738.

Badbury Rings hillfort (1993)/ink survey

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF0918785 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Badbury Rings, Dorset (1993). RCHME Salisbury surveyed the interior of the Iron Age hillfort in 1993, at the request of the National Trust.Contents : 3 plans, report, correspondence, survey data, computer plot, research material, field check sheetCondition : INTACT

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, AF1127432 (Index). SDO14738.

RCHME: Badbury Rings, Dorset (1998). The summit area of Badbury Rings was cleared of undergrowth in 1997 by the National Trust and the young conifer plantation was thinned out. The clearance offered the opportunity for the RCHME to complete the large scale survey of the hilltop which proved impractical in 1993 because of the vegetation cover.Contents : 1 plan

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1060432 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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