Site Name: Ringsbury Camp
Civil Parish: Purton
Grid Ref: 407490, 186750

Description:
An Iron-Age hillfort with an entrance at the eastern side.

Details:
Bi-vallate hillfort with entrance at east. Uninscribed gold coin - obverse plain convex. Reverse - concave, showing a disjointed horse and wheel.


Sources:

Victoria County History 1 1 97+ 268(187) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 38, p 311 & p637

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