More information : Three surface features discovered by F W Carter at
SJ 648 130 in Dothill Park were excavated in 1960. Site "A",
which was due to be destroyed by building development, appeared
on air photographs as a series of concentric markings of 250 -
300 ft overall diameter, with a sub-circular or rectangular
feature in the centre. Excavation revealed nothing to explain
this pattern, but about 300 sherds of 12th and 13th century
coarse pottery were recovered, together with a lead seal,
suggesting occupation principally between 1150 and 1300, with no
signs of earlier or later habitation. (1)
Of the three Ringworks in Dothill Park, site "A" proved to be
medieval. The ring-ditch of "B", crowning a prominent knoll, was
found to be between 2 and 6 ft deep, timber revetted, but no
traces of occupation were found within it, and it may only have
been an old plantation site. Site "C", on low lying ground,
revealed only a cobbled area of the 16th century or later. (2)
The area in which these features lie has been, or is being built
on and there is now no indication of their sites. (3)
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