Badbury Rings

Badbury Rings
Aerial photograph of Badbury Rings
Badbury Rings from the north
Badbury Rings is located in Dorset
Badbury Rings
Shown within Dorset
LocationShapwick, Dorset
grid reference ST964030
Coordinates50°49′35″N 2°03′05″W / 50.8263°N 2.0515°W / 50.8263; -2.0515
TypeHillfort
History
PeriodsIron Age
Site notes
OwnershipNational Trust
Public accessYes

Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of the fort, and there was a Romano-British town known as Vindocladia a short distance to the south-west.