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Multi-periodSite Name: Trendle Ring
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.7 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Somerset Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Bicknoller
Map Ref: ST118394  Landranger Map Number: 181
Latitude: 51.147042N  Longitude: 3.262308W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Trendle Ring
Trendle Ring submitted by mattimpey : Hopefully you can just make out the single bank and ditch of what I think is Trendle Ring on a ridge of a Quantock hillside. It is a single ditch and rampart enclosure about 130m above sea level. The bracken was to thick to hike across in September so I hope to visit again in the winter when it has all died down or I find someone who knows where the path to it is. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillslope Enclosure dating to the Iron Age in Somerset

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Trendle Ring
Trendle Ring submitted by mattimpey : What I think is Trendle Ring on a ridge of a Quantock hillside. It is a single ditch and rampart enclosure about 130m above sea level. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Trendle Ring
Trendle Ring submitted by mattimpey : The view from Trendle Ring is very nice. Not bad for somewhere which may have been a simple animal enclosure. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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ST1239 : Short Combe from Quantock moor by Martin Southwood
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ST1139 : Woodland near the junction Of Chilcombe Lane & Thorncombe Lane by N Chadwick
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ST1139 : Coppiced trees by the junction of Chilcombe Lane & Trendle Lane by N Chadwick
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Trendle Ring by DavidHarcombe on Sunday, 20 August 2017
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Trendle Ring (or Trundle Ring) is a late prehistoric earthwork near Bicknoller, Somerset. It's built on a slope partly up the side of Weacombe Hill, which rises around 400 foot (130 metres) above the site on the Quantock Hills, & on the north side of the A358.

According to Wikipedia, the word "trendle" means circle. The earthwork, which covers about 2 acres (0.8 hectares), is surrounded by a single rampart with a ditch, & has an opening on its eastern uphill side. The hillside is steep, though two more level & less sloping areas inside the site may possibly have supported buildings or platforms. In addition, there are several tumuli, barrows, & cairns on the hilltop above it.

Wikipedia has it as a possible fort, hill-slope enclosure, livestock enclosure, or settlement, but its sloping position halfway up the hillside instead suggests to me a cattle or animal corral site. Although there is no water supply for animals within the ring itself, there are streams & ditches nearby. Nowadays, however, its only visitors are deer - reasonably plentiful around there. Perhaps in the past it was used to corral them also.





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Re: Trendle Ring by SimonBlackmore on Sunday, 03 November 2013
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Visited this site - settlement on a slope with clear ditch and bank. Excellent view across the West Somerset railway and access up hill to the barrows on the Quantocks.
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