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<< Our Photo Pages >> Badbury Rings - Hillfort in England in Dorset
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Page Views: 18507
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England
Site Name: Badbury Rings Country: England County: Dorset Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Wimborne Minster Nearest Village: Shapwick
Map Ref: ST964030 Landranger Map Number: 195
Latitude: 50.826526N Longitude: 2.052481W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Hillfort in Dorset. Three well-worn chalk banks and ditches surround 7 hectares of trees inside. This Iron Age hillfort has never been excavated, so details are sketchy at best, although it lies at the junction of two Roman roads.
Common to many south-western hillforts, it harbours Arthurian legends. This site gets very busy with dog-walkers, picnickers and other such visitors on warm weekends.
Access: Well signposted just off the B3082 between Wimborne Minster and Blandford Forum. Large car-park.
Note: Walking with Archaeologists, Badbury Rings, 23rd October 2011 see comment.
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 Badbury Rings submitted by JimChampion
Two-photo panorama of the bowl barrow (grid reference ST95830295) to the west of Badbury Rings. There is already an excellent kite aerial photo of this barrow on the portal, taken by h_fenton. This photo taken in June 2010.
 Badbury Rings submitted by JimChampion
Panorama of Badbury Rings, from the angle that most visitors first view it!
 Badbury Rings submitted by AngieLake
An illustration of an amazingly carved stone from Badbury Barrows, taken from 'Wessex', by J.F.S. Stone, Thames Hudson, 1963. (Found this gem in a charity shop.)
TMA have more info here:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5513/badbury_rings.html
The Badbury stone is in the British Museum. TMA have Grinsell's very good description of the find in 1845.
 Badbury Rings submitted by h_fenton
The low angle of light clearly highlights from remains of a Roman road from Dorchester heading towards Salisbury as it passes Badbury Rings. The modern trackway sits in one of the ditches of the Roman road.
Kite Aerial Photograph
26 June 2011 @ 8.40pm
 Badbury Rings submitted by h_fenton
Kite aerial photograph of a bowl barrow (Grid Reference: ST 9583 0295) to the west of Badbury Rings, this is the most south-westerly barrow of the group of three next to the road into the carpark.
26 June 2011 @ 7.45pm
 Badbury Rings submitted by h_fenton
Vertical kite aerial photograph of a bowl barrow (Grid Reference: ST 9583 0295) to the west of Badbury Rings, this is the most south-westerly barrow of the group of three next to the road into the carpark.
26 June 2011 @ 7.58pm
 Badbury Rings submitted by h_fenton
Badbury Rings viewed from roughly east.
Kite Aerial Photograph
26 June 2011 @ 8.49pm
 Badbury Rings submitted by JimChampion
The cattle in the foreground were grazing the large field that includes the rings of Badbury. Beyond are the three round barrows alongside the track to the main car park.
 Badbury Rings submitted by PhilipT
Early morning, Badbury Rings.
 Badbury Rings submitted by gubber
Badbury Rings October 2005. Aerial photograph taken from a kite. View looking approximately south at the south west corner of the rings.
 Badbury Rings submitted by gubber
Badbury Rings October 2005. Aerial photograph taken from a kite. View looking approximately north along the eastern edge of the rings.
 Badbury Rings submitted by AngieLake
Bronze Age Barrows at Badbury Rings Iron Age Hill fort. This shows the relative position of the three barrows to the ramparts. I cannot remember if this is the northern-most one, or the middle one. The two in shade were hidden from the lane leading to the car park by thick hedges.
 Badbury Rings submitted by AngieLake
Bronze Age barrows at Badbury Rings Iron Age Hill fort. These three barrows form a line approx N/S and lie about 500 yds west from the ramparts. They run parallel with the lane leading to the carpark of the site from the main road south of Badbury Rings. (This is the westerly of two lanes I noticed there.)Apologies for the light in lens.
 Badbury Rings submitted by AngieLake
Bronze Age bowl-barrows about 500yds west of Badbury Rings Iron Age Hill fort's ramparts. This shows one of the three in the rays of the setting sun in May 2005. The fence right of picture borders the westerly of two N/S lanes leading to the site from the main road south of the fort.
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Re: Walking with Archaeologists, Badbury Rings, 23rd October 2011 (Score: 1)
by enjaytom on Wednesday, 19 October 2011
(User Info | Send a Message) | Badbury Rings is a most significant prehistoric site, linked to the east and west by ancient tracks, the trio Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls then to Mount Pleasant and Stanton Drew all of whom are calendar buildings of the third millennium BC.
Badbury Rings is joined by neolithic tracks NOT Roman Roads to these locations. The two straight tracks existed two millennia before Roman was even built. | [ Reply to This ]
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Walking with Archaeologists, Badbury Rings, 23rd October 2011 (Score: 1)
by coldrum on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
(User Info | Send a Message) | Walking with Archaeologists, Badbury Rings, 23rd October 2011
Kingston Lacy
Walking with Archaeologists
An opporutnity to explore the ancient Rings with archaeologist Bekki Stalker from the Estate, and discover the hidden history of Badbury and the surrounding countryside. The walk is over flat, but uneven, terrain.
Sunday, 23 October 2011 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Adult £5, Child £3
Booking Essential 01202 883402 (line 8)
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-events/w-events-find_event.htm?regionid=1 | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Lou Mill (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Thursday, 02 February 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | How did this get -1 comments, perhaps this will fix it... | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Lou Mill (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Thursday, 02 February 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Adding one more comment to give it a +1 and some sense of normality. Dum de dum, don't mind me... |
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Re: Badbury Rings (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Wednesday, 27 July 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | There are three good Bronze Age Barrows near the SW/NE lane leading to the car park for visitors to Badbury Rings. (My OS map shows two access roads leading up to Badbury Rings, and this would be the most westerly lane.) The photos I took of them in May 2005 have been posted on to this section. I hadn't noticed the barrows on the way up the lane; in fact, two of them are hidden behind a thick hedge, but the most southerly (SW?) one would appear to be visible from the lane.
In Nicholas Thomas's Guide to Prehistoric England (I have a reprint, 1977 - Book Club Associates copy, in agreement with orig. pub. B.T.Batsford Ltd) he tells us:
"In Roman times there was probably a large settlement either within the Iron Age ramparts, or close to them. Here is the meeting place of 2 main roads, the Ackling Dkye from Old Sarum to Dorchester, and one from Bath to Poole Harbour.
A superb length of Ackling Dyke impinges upon the outermost rampart of Badbury Ring at the NW. Here the road agger is 13yds wide and 4-6ft high; it is flanked by well-defined side-banks and ditches 40yds apart.
Five-hundred yds W of the intersection with the Iron Age hill-fort, 3 conspicuous mounds are set immediately N of Ackling Dyke. A fourth mound of similar shape can be seen 400ft W of the intersection. Excavation (1959) has shown that these are Bronze Age bowl-barrows, the bank and ditch around the most W mound being recent."
(Not quite sure what he means by 'recent'!) | [ Reply to This ]
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by Anonymous on Monday, 13 October 2003 | | Ambience is a 5! | [ Reply to This ]
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