Badbury Rings

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

The 100 m high, seven -acre fort was surrounded by three 15 m high wooden ramparts and four Bronze Age grave mounds which indicate the former importance of the place. On a stone one of the tumuli very rarely occurring carvings can be seen in England. Make daggers, axtförmig drawn triangles and cup-and -ring markings show how they appear quite similar on 53 stone in Stonehenge.

Dorset fell during the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons, who were stopped by the Bokerley Dyke (Wall ) on the Roman road from Old Sarum. The historian Roy Carr put forward the suggestion that the Anglo-Saxons were held by a menacing army from the west, perhaps stayed at Badbury Rings. Carr also suspected that this army could be one of the sources for the Arthuslegende and that Badbury Rings the place might have been, at the Battle of Mons Badonicus took place.

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

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