Figsbury Ring Iron Age hill fort
       
     
Figsbury Ring.jpg
       
     
the inner ditch
       
     
Old Sarum is just a few miles further West
       
     
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Figsbury Ring Iron Age hill fort
       
     
Figsbury Ring Iron Age hill fort

On the face of it Figsbury Ring near Salisbury is just a standard univalate Iron Age hill fort, but once you’ve passed through the entrance there’s a near perfect circular ditch with what appear to be two causeways. Interestingly the two causeways appear to line up with Old Sarum which is a couple of miles further West. So I’m thinking, hang on a minute , this looks like a Neolithic causewayed enclosure? Not uncommon. Many hill forts started out like that. However there is little evidence from excavations by the Cunningtons in the 1920s to date it as a Causewayed Enclosure, so the other possibility might be that it was originally a Henge monument. Unfortunately nobody seems willing to verify this, so it remains a mystery.

Figsbury Ring.jpg
       
     
the inner ditch
       
     
the inner ditch
Old Sarum is just a few miles further West
       
     
Old Sarum is just a few miles further West
DSC06211.jpg