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	Badbury Rings, Dorset, England
		Badbury Rings is a mile north-east of the village of Shapwick and must rank with Maiden Castle as one of England's finest earthworks.
		Legend has it that the farmer who planted them is supposed to have planted one for each day of the year.
		He obviously couldn't count to well, as there are over 365 of them on one side of the road alone.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /locations/Place/B010.htm (123 words)

	Badbury Rings - Iron Age Hill Fort, Shapwick, Wimborne, Dorset. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort on the downs a few miles to the north of Whitemill.
		The fortifications consist of three concentric rings of bank and ditch, the outer is much inferior to the two inner rings and is thought to have been added hurriedly when word reached Dorset of Julius Caeser's abortive invasion of 54BC.
		Badbury Rings can be found about halfway along the famous Kingston Lacy Beech Avenue between Wimborne and Blandford Forum.
	www.whitemill.org /z0002.htm (463 words)

	Images of Dorset - Orchids at Badbury Rings
		Located immediately to the north of Wimborne, Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill-fort that dates from about 150BC.
		Badbury Rings are now cared for by the National Trust, and are managed as grass downland.
		The pictures of Orchids at Badbury Rings in this gallery were captured at high resolution.
	www.imagesofdorset.org.uk /Dorset/055/intro.htm (327 words)

	Badbury Rings
		The most likely inhabitants of Badbury Rings were the Durotriges tribe, who were also responsible for Maiden Castle.
		It has been conjectured that Badbury is the site of Mons Badonicus (Mount Badon) - the great battle at which King Arthur defeated the advancing Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in the late 5th or early 6th century.
		Badbury Rings are open at all reasonable times.
	www.britainexpress.com /counties/dorset/ancient/badbury.htm (539 words)

	Badbury Rings
		Dating from the Iron Age, a period spanning the years from 800BC to immediately prior to the Roman occupation in AD43, the hill fort at Badbury was constructed on a site that was certainly occupied from much earlier times.
		The settlement would have been situated on the top of the hill, now covered by the pine wood, and the circular depressions in the ground, roughly 10ft (3m) in diameter, are remaining evidence of the wattle and daub houses that were constructed here.
		Badbury is believed to have been one of several settlements in the area belonging to an ancient Dorset tribe known as the 'Durotriges' (The largest example can be seen at Maiden Castle near Dorchester).
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /early%20ages/badbury%20rings.htm (492 words)

	Corvus '99 - Badbury Rings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Iron Age hill-fort at Badbury Rings has long been among the contenders for the site of Arthur's greatest battle against the Saxons-- Badon Hill.
		The claim is based primarily on the similarity in the names, but there is also a degree of incidental evidence supported by its strategic importance and the fact that it was, like Cadbury, re-fortified during the Arthurian period.
		Badbury has yet to have been excavated, so it remains an uncertain contender for the Battle of Badon Hill.
	members.aol.com /felisculpa/bad.htm (313 words)

	Badbury in directory.co.uk
		Badbury Rings, 961032, on the B3082 road between Wimborne Minster and Blan...
		Badbury Rings, the Iron Age hill fort in the grounds of Kingston Lacy House near Wimborne to meet some of the people...
		Badbury Rings is a mile north-east of the village of Shapwick and must rank with Maiden Castle as...
	www.directory.co.uk /Badbury.htm (393 words)

	Walks: Badbury Rings, Dorset
		The rings at Badbury are the remains of an Iron Age hill fort.
		Badbury Rings is a high point in the local landscape and provides excellent views in all directions.
		Park in the Badbury Rings car park sign posted off the B3082 between Blandford Forum and Wimborne Minster.
	www.walks4softies.co.uk /Badbury_Rings/index.html (112 words)

	BBC - Dorset - Features - Badbury Rings Walk
		Walking from the Rings towards Kingston Lacy House and grounds, we met with Doug Lucas, who was making traditional wattle hurdles, as he and his family have done in the area for the last 200 years.
		Down between the rings in the protected areas away from the wind you will be amazed at teh wide variety which inhabit the masses of wild flowers.
		Just to the northeast of Badbury Rings is the WW2 airfield at Tarrant Rushton from which troup-carrying gliders took off for the assault on Normandy in 1944.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dorset/content/articles/2005/02/23/bradbury_rings_feature.shtml (1141 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Dorset \| First excavation of ancient fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Badbury Rings may have been first inhabited about 3500 BC The first excavation of a well-known pre-historic monument has shown it to be much older than previously thought.
		The archaeological dig at Badbury Rings near Wimborne in Dorset has uncovered evidence that the site was inhabited at least 5,000 years ago.
		The evidence found so far dates the first occupation of Badbury Rings, which are part of the National Trust's Kingston Lacy Estate, between 3500 and 1500 BC.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/dorset/3684294.stm (204 words)

	Images of Dorset - Photographs of Badbury Rings
		The Rings were clearly of some significance to the Romans; Ackling Dyke – the road built by the Roman army to link Salisbury (Old Sarum, to the north-east) and Dorchester (to the south-west) passes directly by the Rings, making there the only significant change in its otherwise completely straight course.
		A number of orchids have established themselves on the banks and nearby, the species distribution around the Rings reflecting the mirroring of slope and orientation of the banks on either side of the fort.
		Badbury Rings, a low mound made into a hillfort during the Iron Age, now covered with a copse of trees, seen from a short distance westwards along Ackling Dyke (picture)
	www.imagesofdorset.org.uk /Dorset/009/intro.htm (619 words)

	Point-to-Point - Area News - Sandhurst
		Rilly Goschen, who rode a treble at Badbury Rings on Saturday, brought her seasons total to 11 when Vodka Inferno won the Berrry Bros. and Rudd Maiden.
		Badbury rings lies on the B3082 between Wimborne and Blandford.
		The two remaining Sandhurst Area meetings are at Badbury Rings on 26 February and at Kingston Blount on 23 April.
	www.pointtopoint.co.uk /news-2005/areas_sandhurst.html (2170 words)

	Arthurian Somerset and Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Badbury Rings, a hillfort near Wimborne in Dorset, is at least an interesting site in its own right, although it can't be Badon as there is no evidence that the Saxons were anywhere near the area when the battle probably took place.
		Badbury Rings is worth a visit, but this cannot really be said about the other minor sites in the area.
		In addition, there is no reason to believe that "Linnuis" and "Lindinis" are related, and, as at Badbury, there is no evidence of Saxons anywhere nearby for Arthur to fight.
	arthsoc.drruss.net /southwest.html (1677 words)

	Welcome to the Pointing Wessex website
		BADBURY Rings near Wimborne, by kind permission of the National Trust and Crabb Farms, hosts its second point-to-point of the season on Easter Saturday when the Wilton Hunt hold their annual meeting there.
		Breteche, trained by Chloe Newman, has a good record at Badbury Rings and both Bak On Board and Knight Of Passion from Alan Tizzard’s stable ran excellent races on their first starts of the season.
		The Badbury Rings course lies 3 miles NW of Wimborne on the B3082.
	www.jumping4fun.co.uk /pointingwessex/preview-wilton.htm (478 words)

	(GC4BDF) Digging Up The Past (Dorset) by Gary & Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is an easy two-stage multi-cache based around Badbury Rings, an Iron Age hill fort with extensive views of the surrounding countryside.
		Badbury Rings is one of the great hill forts of Southern England, a triple banked Iron Age defensive earthwork.
		The Rings are approached through a two mile long avenue of beech trees planted in 1835 which is spectacular in the Autumn.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=19423&log=y (6620 words)

	Badbury Rings
		START: In the National Trust car park at Badbury Rings, 961032, on the B3082 road between Wimborne Minster and Blandford Forum.
		Unfortunately, dogs are not allowed within the area of the rings but can use the car park as this is outside the site.
		Those without dogs wishing to visit Badbury Rings can cross the road and take the right hand of the two tracks just off to the right.
	www.butcherb.freeserve.co.uk /badbury.htm (667 words)

	Badbury Rings - Information
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		Badbury Rings is an iron age hill fort in east Dorset, England, dating from 800 BCE and in use until the Roman occupation of 43CE.
		The 330 ft (100 m) high, 7 hectare fort is encircled by three 40 ft (15 m) ramparts and four Bronze Age round barrows indicating an earlier occupation.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Badbury_Rings (257 words)

	Wessex Walks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Badbury Rings, the site of a large Iron Age Fort, occupies a commanding site to the west of Wimborne
		CIRCULAR IN shape and made up of three concentric rings of massive chalk banks is close to the B3082 Wimborne-to-Blandford Road.
		Park in the National Trust car park for Badbury Rings and return to the main B3082.
	www.nqsouthern.com /digitalpublication/digitalpublications/index.cfm?dpid=133§ion_id=1140 (631 words)

	Bokerley Dyke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bokerley Dyke ia a Romano-British defensive ditch in north east Dorset, England, near the village Pentridge.
		The ditch ran for several miles, cutting across the Roman Road between Old Sarum and Badbury Rings on the Cranborne Chase ridgeway.
		Dated to 367 CE and was constructed to keep the Saxon invaders out of Dorset.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bokerley_Dyke (185 words)

	Badbury Rings (Hillfort) \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Badbury Rings (Hillfort)
		Badbury Rings (Hillfort) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK and Ireland's most popular megalithic community website.
		Badbury, takes no effort to climb but there are views over the flat plain all around.
		Badbury Rings is supposed to be a candidate for the Battle of Badon Hill, where Arthur decisively beat the Anglo-Saxons.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /site/33 (1324 words)

	Shapwick
		The Romans built a road from Badbury Rings to Dorchester, crossing the River by a ford near where the Church stands.
		Recently, in the 1990s, evidence of a Roman Villa was uncovered in the field to the north of Queen Cottages at the north east end of the Village.
		The population of Shapwick is probably at the lowest for centuries, due to changing farming practices.
	www.wsr.org.uk /shapwick/history.htm (301 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dorset's high chalk hills have provided a location for defensive settlements for millenia, with neolithic and bronze age burial mounds on almost every chalk hill in the county, and a number of iron age hill forts, such as Maiden Castle, Badbury Rings and Hambledon Hill.
		At Abbotsbury on the Fleet the Romans quickly took the hill fort, Abbotsbury Castle, bloodlessly before moving on to Maiden Castle.
		There is some evidence of a struggle at Maiden Castle and Badbury Rings but current opinion amoungst archaeologists is that these, and Hod Hill, also fell with ease.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Dorset (1058 words)

	The Mysterious Sites of Dorset
		This concentric ring hillfort dates from the Iron Age, and according to archaeologists was built to stem an invasion from the Northeast of the country.
		The hillfort consists of three concentric rings of banks and ditches the third outer ditch being the smallest.
		There were two entrances to the site one in the East, which is staggered to make it more difficult to attack, and one in the West.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/dorset/badbury_rings.html (201 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Badbury Rings Hillfort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Badbury Rings detail of area between innermost and centre banking.
		(My OS map shows two access roads leading up to Badbury Rings, and this would be the most westerly lane.) The photos I took of them in May 2005 have been posted on to this section.
		A superb length of Ackling Dyke impinges upon the outermost rampart of Badbury Ring at the NW.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=8 (909 words)

	Hill Forts - Rural Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Knowlton Rings was constructed in the Bronze Age as a religious site, as the large number of barrows in the area and the proximity of yew trees indicate.
		The church in the centre was built to destroy the religious power of the rings (a symbol of the power of Christianity over Paganism).
		A plague in 1348 killed the residents of the nearby village, the church fell into disuse and finally into ruin in the 18th Century.
	www.ruraldorset.com /area/a2z.asp?ID=67 (3614 words)

	bournemouth guest house Rosscourt Hotel
		Ackling & Bokerly Dykes the Dorset Cursus and Badbury Rings
		Ackling Dyke or Icknield Street, is one of the most spectacular Roman Roads in Britain, it runs for 25 miles from Old Sarum to Badbury Rings and you may still walk along the route, in the footsteps of the Centurions!
		Badbury Rings is one of the great hill forts of Southern England, a triple banked Iron Age defensive earthwork offering extensive views.
	www.rosscourthotel.co.uk /bournemouth-guest-house.html (563 words)

	Badbury Rings
		As the Rings are large and Wasp Orchids are small we were not sure if we would find it as it was a little way off the path, so Ken offered to walk back to show us.
		The top of the Rings are also full of Bee Orchids this year, and they were in excellent condition too.
		I had walked as far as I was able to, so at this point we turned around and we had a lovely walk back to the car park, where Ken and Sue had finished their walk and had a picnic lunch, and were just about to drive home.
	www.dorsetwalking.co.uk /20050612.htm (431 words)

	Lore of the Rings :: Paganality.com :: (yes, it's magik :) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The excavations, which were prompted by concerns that tree roots on the summit were damaging the monument, have already revealed neolithic flits and as the dig continues the trust is hoping to find further evidence about the date of the earliest occupation.
		Finds so far date the first occupation of Badbury Rings to between 3500 and 1500 BC.
		Mr Papworth added: "We are hoping that this first excavation of Badbury Rings will help us untangle the chronology of this important piece of Dorset's history - to clarify the dates of its first occupation and when it was finally abandoned."
	www.paganality.com /print.php?sid=9914 (376 words)

	Mary Butts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Some of her short fiction, notably Speed the Plough, the story of a shell-shocked soldier returning from the war, was highly admired and frequently anthologised.
		Her most notable achievement was a pair of novels, Ashe of Rings (1925) and Armed with Madness (1928), that combine such modernist literary techniques as "stream of consciousness" and complex symbolism with a quasi-mystical rootedness in the English land.
		The journals reveal that the seed for Butts's novels was sown by a visionary daydream experienced on Badbury Rings early in the war.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /080803.html (7086 words)

	Badbury Rings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Badbury Rings is on the B3082 between Wimborne Minster and Blandford, lying about 5 km (3 miles) north-west of Wimborne.
		ST 960030 (O.S. Landranger Sheet 195).Badbury Rings is signposted on the B3082, and there is a large Car Park at the Rings, which is free at the time of writing.
		No dogs within the enclosure and on the Rings themselves. Nevertheless, there is a large area beyond the car park for dog walking
	www.dorsetbutterflies.co.uk /badbury.htm (275 words)

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