More information : (SX 187549) Earthwork (NR). (1)
Known as "Bake Rings". Listed under "Defensive enclosures". (2)
A circular camp with a single bank and ditch and an entrance on the SE. An advanced rampart on the S extends half round the former enclousre with an entrance opposite the inner one. (3)
Listed under hill-forts with multiple enclosures.
Bake Rings: two annexed enclosures, heavily ploughed down. Plateau site. (4)
Locally known as 'Bake Rings', the almost circular enclosure about 94.0m diameter is situated on a plateau with a 'D'-shaped outwork or annexe on its E side.
It has been much ploughed down and spread so that the entrance or entrances to each enclosure cannot be determined but the existence of a ditch (originally a bank and ditch, the bank now barely discernible) outside the SE corner seems a possible covering work for a SE entrance.
The interiors of the enclosures are not artificially levelled or made up. Although the possibility of a medieval ring motte and bailey cannot be completely dismissed it would seem more likely to be a round with contemporary annexe; ie an IA/RB settlement and enclosures of pastoral nature.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
(For similar earthworks see SX 36 NW 1, SX 322658; SX 37 SW 12, SX 311725; and SW 97 SW 5, SW 923711). (5)
Bake Rings - feature described as being completely ploughed out by OS Field Reviser. (6) |