Ringmoor
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox ancient site The Ringmoor settlement is an Iron Age/Romano-British farming settlement in Dorset, England. It is between the villages of Okeford Fitzpaine and Turnworth, and lies on east-facing slopes of Bell Hill, on the Dorset Downs.
The site is owned by the National Trust,[1] and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[2]
Earthworks
The site is well preserved in unploughed downland. There is a farmstead, an oval enclosure about Script error: No such module "convert". by Script error: No such module "convert"., with an entrance on the east; inside are levelled areas, thought to be the sites of buildings. Outside the enclosure, trackways and field systems are still clearly visible as banks in the grassland.[2][3]
More recent occupation
Ringmoor Cottages, built in the mid 19th century, once stood on the site, but they were vacated and demolished in the early 1950s.[3]
References
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- ↑ "Earthwork Remains of Turnworth Iron Age Settlement, Ringmoor" National Trust. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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- ↑ a b 'Turnworth', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, Central (London, 1970), pp. 290–292 British History Online. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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