Ringmoor
The Ringmoor Settlement is an Iron Age/Romano-British farming settlement in Dorset.
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The site is well preserved in unploughed downland. An ancient trackway and field systems are still clearly visible as banks in the grassland.
Only limited archaeological research has been done on the site, and little is known about it. In the Iron Age, it was in the territory of the Durotriges, along with nearby Hod Hill and Hambledon Hill.
Location
The site is on top of the hill, north of Turnworth and south of Belchalwell, in the Blackmore Vale. It lies on the South side of the Ridgeway, half a mile West of the road from Okeford Fitzpaine to Turnworth. It has its own car park further down the road towards Turnworth.
More recent occupation
There was a pair of ancient cottages on the site, but they were vacated and demolished in the early 1950s.
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Only parts of the garden wall and one gable wall remain standing (March 2020) - click on the icons for full size.
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