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In archaeology, a ring ditch is a trench of circular or penannular plan, cut into bedrock. They are usually identified through aerial photography either as soil marks or cropmarks. When excavated, ring ditches are usually found to be the ploughed‐out remains of a round barrow where the barrow mound has completely disappeared, leaving only the infilled former quarry ditch.[1] Both Neolithic and Bronze Age ring ditches have been discovered.
The term is most often used as a generic description in cases where there is no clear evidence for the function of the site: for instance where it has been ploughed flat and is known only as a cropmark or a geophysical anomaly. The two most frequent monument types represented by ring ditches are roundhouses (where the 'ditch' is actually a foundation slot or eaves drip gully) and round barrows. The term is not normally used for larger features than these. Larger features would instead be described as 'circular enclosures'.
Also related to ring ditches, is the causewayed ring ditch, which is a roughly circular ditch with a central area and multiple causeways which cross it. The causewayed ring ditch is a subcategory of the ring ditch.
In archaeology, a ringditch is a trench of circular or penannular plan, cut into bedrock. They are usually identified through aerial photography either...
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circular hilltop enclosure—marked by a bank and ditch—inside which is a circular mound and the remains of a ring barrow. Archeological investigations show that...
megalithic tomb, known as 'St Patrick's Bed', which was once surrounded by a ringditch. Downslope to the east is a small lake known as Loch Lugh or Loch Lugborta...
Namsan were located inside a ring-ditch that is some 4.2 m deep and 10 m in width. Why would such a formidable ring-ditch, so massive in size, have been...
surviving medieval castle in Glasgow. Crookston is surrounded by a defensive ringditch that dates back to the 12th century when Sir Robert de Croc, who also...
the south and west of the ring, including the "Comet Stone" to the south-east.: 42 The stones are set within a circular ditch up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) deep...
south of Biggleswade Hospital. A Neolithic cursus and five associated ringditches south of Furzenhall Farm show as crop markings on aerial images. Archaeological...
Bronze Age (radiocarbon dates of between 1050 and 800 BC); then a single ring-ditch roundhouse in the Middle Iron Age (radiocarbon dates of 171 BC - AD 51);...
limits, and archaeologists found that it was completely surrounded by a ring-ditch. Both Banpo and Jiangzhai also yielded incised marks on pottery which...
metres wide which sits on a plinth and is surrounded by a concentric ringditch. The overall diameter of the monument is around 60 metres. The barrow...
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buried in a large barrow within a 66-foot-wide (20 m) stone cairn inside a ringditch. 1932 BC: Amorite conquest of Ur. c. 1928 BC – 1895 BC: "Harvest scene"...
placed between 2600 BC and 2400 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to...
between 8625 and 8465 BCE, were discovered. A ringditch containing two ceramic urns, was also found. Other ditches identified during the same excavation may...
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all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Because the internal ditches would have served defensive purposes...
Archaeology team in Olney, Buckinghamshire. 18 An ancient circular shape ringditch was uncovered in Derbyshire, England. A serpent sculpture which served...
and Pohansko). However, we do not know what these objects, such as a ringditch with a fire, a horse sacrifice, or human limbs ritually buried in a cemetery...
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and Ireland List of castles in England "A ringwork and bailey castle, ringditch and enclosures east of Brookland Farm". Historic England. Retrieved 25...
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