Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708259

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT03SE 6 0859 3359.

(NT 0859 3359) Mill Rings (NAT) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map, (1967).

In a plantation on level ground there is an earthwork measuring 185' x 170' within two stony grass-covered banks. The inner bank stands to a maximum height of 3' and measures up to 17' in thickness. The outer bank, which is of similar appearance except on the SE and SSW, where it is reduced to a mere scarp, lies at a distance varying between 12' and 44' from the inner bank. The original entrance is on the WSW, the other gaps that occur in both banks being clearly secondary. The interior is featureless.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1957.

A circular earthwork as described. Its non- defensive situation on the edge of a ridge points to its being a settlement.

Visited by OS(BS) 25 November 1974.