Thread by @Durotrigesdig

Figsbury Ring comprises a fine set of prehistoric enclosure systems on the chalk above Salisbury in #Wiltshire looked after by @nationaltrust @NatTrustArch

A short thread for #HillfortsWednesday

Figsbury Ring, once known as Chlorus Camp, #Wiltshire @NatTrustArch - The outer circuit encloses 6.2ha with entrances on the E and W

📷 Dae Sasitorn + Adrian Warren © Sasitorn Images

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For many years, Figsbury Ring, depicted here in the Ordnance Survey for 1927 with the Roman road from Old Sarum to Winchester to the south, was thought to be a bivallate Iron Age hillfort...

...but there was something strange about the innermost circuit

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Maud Cunnington dug Figsbury Ring inner circuit in 1924 finding bone with Grooved Ware and Beaker pottery. It may have been a causewayed enclosure or even a henge – as old to the hillfort builders as the hillfort is to us

📷© Tony Gonçalves 2008 CC-By-SA-2.5

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The outer circuit of Figsbury Ring #Wiltshire forms a quietly impressive univallate hillfort dominating the chalkscape, the wide valley of the River Bourne and the views to #Salisbury and @EHOldSarum

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Figsbury Rings #Wiltshire is owned and cared for by the @nationaltrust @NatTrustArch

There’s an, ahem, *interesting* road to the top but once there, the views alone make it worthwhile. The Iron Age ramparts are popular with humans and animals alike 🤩😍

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Figsbury Ring #Wiltshire - a 360 pan of hillfort and view from the Eastern ramparts 🤩🤩

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Ack - done it again - *WESTERN* ramparts !!

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The interior of Figsbury hillfort #Wiltshire with the earlier internal henge / causewayed enclosure (would prefer it to be a causewayed enclosure if I'm honest)

Another example of prehistory brightening up the gloomiest of days 😍

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