Buckland Rings

Buckland Rings is the site of an Iron Age hill fort in the town of Lymington, Hampshire [1]. The entrance, which lies on the east side, was also excavated revealing a long entrance passage and the postholes for a pair of stout gateposts [1]. The earliest report of Buckland Rings was by Thomas Wright who visited the site in the summer of 1743 [1]. To date the only excavation of the site was that conducted over a three-week period in 1935 under the supervision of Christopher Hawkes, following some preparatory work in 1934 [1]. The site may date from the Early to Middle Iron-Age (c. 5th century BC) and may have started out with a single bank and ditch system [1].