Bradbury Rings

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) To the northwest of Pool, Dorset the impressive multivallate contour hillfort, Bradbury Rings which lies within fields but has access via a carpark to the west. (a National Trust site). First mentioned by John Leland in his itinerary circa 1540. He said the site used to be called, ‘Toune a Castelle now called Badbyri’. First field investigation in 1822. Later investigations found Neolithic flint, Bronze Age ring ditches as well as possible barrows outside the rings to the northwest. Surrounded by Romano British settlements, one being Vindocladia, Roman roads cross at the site. Re-occupied after Roman recall in the 5th & 6th centuries. Possible use by Æthelwold’s army in 899AD when he challenged Edward the Elder for the throne. Possible use by the ‘Clubmen’ (English civil war local vigilantes) in 1645. Last (archaeological) site visit, 2016. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Durotriges. (Scheduled monument) [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Wikipedia websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]