Badbury Rings

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Badbury Rings

Badbury Rings is an Iron Age fort in east Dorset in England . It dates from around 800 BC. And was used until about the Roman invasion of England around 43 AD. Badbury Rings is located between two Roman roads, between Dorchester , Old Sarum ( Salisbury ), Bath and Hamworthy ( Poole ).

The approximately 100 m high, seven hectare fort was surrounded by three approximately 15 m high wooden walls and four Bronze Age burial mounds , which indicate the former importance of the place. In England, very seldom incisions can be seen on a stone of one of the barrows. They represent daggers , ax-shaped triangles, and cup-and-ring markings , similar to those found on Stone 53 in Stonehenge .

Dorset fell into the hands of the Anglo-Saxons during the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England, who were held up by the Bokerley Dyke (Wall) on the Roman road from Old Sarum. Historian Roy Carr suggested that the Anglo-Saxons were being held back by a threatening army from the west that may have been at Badbury Rings. Carr also suggested that this army might be one of the sources for the Arthurian legend , and that Badbury Rings might have been the location where the Battle of Mons Badonicus took place.

The side from which the slope falls into Cranborne Chase is part of the Kingston Lacy Estate and is owned by the National Trust .

literature

  • Roy Carr: Badbury or Badon , in: Dorset life (No. 267, pp. 5-7), 2001
  • Michael Pitt-Rivers: Dorset , Faber & Faber, London 1970

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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 35 "  N , 2 ° 3 ′ 9"  W