Figsbury Ring

Figsbury ring in Wiltshire is an oval, 15.5 -acre Fort Hill in the north-east of Salisbury Firsdown Parish in England. His entrances are located in East and West.

The Hill Fort is somewhat different than other investments in Wiltshire, as it has in addition to the outer and an inner ditch. The outer moat is too shallow to have supplied all the material for the high wall. Maud Cunnington has therefore proposed that the remaining building material was removed from the inner ditch, which makes an unfinished impression. The inner ditch has a uniform distance of about 30 m from the wall. Cunningtons excavation in 1924 showed that the material of ditch and rampart is identical. Other scholars hold the ring ditch for an early Henge, but there are no remains from the Neolithic period have been made ​​so that this interpretation is unlikely.

Figsbury each ring was temporarily, but used for a long period of time. The excavation showed shards of "All Cannings goods " and animal bones, but no signs of a housing development. The majority of the pottery that was found in clusters in the inner moat and under the southwestern section of the wall that dates back to the early Iron Age.

A Bronze Age sword blade, which is located in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, was allegedly found in Figsbury ring. The handle shows that it is from the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age.