Castle Rings, Wiltshire

Castle Rings, Wiltshire
Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 3.0

Castle Rings is a univallate hill fort in Donhead St Mary parish, Wiltshire, dating to the Iron Age (c. 800 BC - 1st century AD). The site sits at 228 metres (748 ft) elevation on Upper Greensand sandstone and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. While most of the fortification lies within Donhead St Mary, some outlying earthworks extend into the neighbouring parish of Sedgehill and Semley. In the mid-1980s, a metal detectorist discovered a hoard of stater coins within the hill fort.[1]

TypeFortress/citadel
Period1500 - 500 BC
CountryEngland
Coordinates51.0252° N, 2.1603° W

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