Site Name: Castle Rings
Civil Parish: Donhead St Mary
Grid Ref: 388900, 125000

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort.

Details:
Univallate hillfort roughly oval, measuring 320m N-S BY 200m enclosing 12.8 acres. Rampart 2.8m high, in Crates Wood, with ditch 0.4m deep.


Sources:

Victoria County History 1 1 265(95) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
The Ancient History of Wiltshire Vol 1,253 1812 Hoare, Sir R.C.
Ancient Earthworks of Cranborne Chase 23-4 1913 Sumner, H

Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office.

Recommended books on hill forts;
Danebury Hillfort ~ Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts of England and Wales ~ James Dyer
Cadbury Castle - The Hillfort and Landscapes ~ Richard Tabor
The Wessex Hillfort Project ~ Andrew Payne, Mark Corney and Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park ~ Stewart Ainsworth and Trevor Pearson
Celtic Fortifications ~ Ian Ralston