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    Castle Rings is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Donhead St Mary in Wiltshire, England. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Castle Rings...
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    Durotriges (category History of Wiltshire)
    roundhouse settlement referred to as Duropolis. Abbotsbury Castle Castle Rings, Wiltshire List of Celtic tribes Bruce Eagles, "Britons and Saxons on the...
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    Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase (The Chase), Staffordshire, England. It is the highest point...
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    Old Sarum (category Castles in Wiltshire)
    Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles...
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  • Windmill Hill Whitesheet Hill, Wiltshire Badbury Rings, Iron Age hill fort. Barbury Castle, Iron Age hill fort. Bat's Castle, Iron Age hill fort. Beacon...
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  • hoard of coins of the Durotriges tribe is found in the rampart of Castle Rings, Wiltshire, England, an Iron Age hill fort, by a metal detectorist. Autumn...
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    Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route. The site, which...
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    motte-and-bailey castle was constructed by 1070. The castle was held directly by the Norman kings; its castellan was generally also the sheriff of Wiltshire. In 1075...
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    named Brictric, who was the largest landowner in Wiltshire. The first mention of Trowbridge Castle was in 1139 when it was besieged. It was no longer...
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    Wiltshire is a historic county located in the South West England region. Wiltshire is landlocked and is in the east of the region. The English conquest...
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    Higher Wincombe. Castle Rings, an Iron Age hillfort, is in the far north of the parish. A Roman road between Bath and Badbury Rings ran north–south through...
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    Age univallate hillfort in Liddington parish in the English county of Wiltshire, and a scheduled monument. The site is on a commanding high point close...
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    area that is now Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire. In the Middle Iron Age, Maiden Castle was expanded and in the process it became the largest...
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    Badbury Rings is the fifth in a series of Iron Age earthworks, starting from Hambledon Hill, and also including Hod Hill, Spetisbury Rings, Buzbury Rings, Badbury...
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    rangelands. Fairy rings are detectable by sporocarps (fungal spore pods) in rings or arcs, as well as by a necrotic zone (dead grass), or a ring of dark green...
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    Grovely Wood (category Forests and woodlands of Wiltshire)
    Grovely Wood is one of the largest woodlands in southern Wiltshire, England. It stands on a chalk ridge above the River Wylye in Barford St Martin parish...
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  • archaeology, publishing a reconsideration of the Inner Enclosure at Figsbury Rings, Wiltshire with Isobel Smith (in 1982) and conducting a fieldwalking survey of...
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    Marlborough Mound (category Archaeological sites in Wiltshire)
    comparable archaeological sites in Wiltshire. Since construction, the mound has functioned as the motte for a Norman Castle, a garden feature for a stately...
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    Church at Stratford-sub-Castle is a 13th-century Grade I listed Church of England parish church, to the north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It stands...
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    Castle Eaton is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England, on the River Thames about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Highworth...
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    Downton is a village and civil parish on the River Avon in southern Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the city of Salisbury. The...
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    2009 "Wiltshire Heritage Museum: Bratton G1". Retrieved 7 March 2011. "Wiltshire Heritage Museum: Bratton G2". Retrieved 7 March 2011. "Wiltshire Heritage...
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    Retrieved 27 May 2009. Fellowship of the Rings Extended Edition DVD Grebey, James (16 June 2021). "Lord of the Rings' uncredited Gimli double finally tells...
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    "colly" is still found.[original research?] "Five gold rings" has often become "five golden rings", especially in North America since the 1961 recording...
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    poetry detailing the geography and legends relating to the rings and its environs. The ring and immediate area are the setting for The Sussex Downs Murder...
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    Fin Cop Mam Tor Dorset Abbotsbury Castle Badbury Rings Banbury Hill Buzbury Rings Chalbury Hillfort Coney's Castle Dudsbury Camp Dungeon Hill Eggardon...
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    Stratford-sub-Castle in Wiltshire, England, was anciently a separate village and civil parish, but is now in Salisbury. At approximately 170 ft above...
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    straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. It is part of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)...
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    Avebury (redirect from Avebury,Wiltshire)
    monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain...
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    Silbury Hill (category English Heritage sites in Wiltshire)
    the Avebury Ring and West Kennet Long Barrow. Its original purpose is still debated. Several other important Neolithic monuments in Wiltshire in the care...
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