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Spetisbury Rings

a Pleiades place resource

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Spetisbury Rings, also known as Crawford Castle, is a hillfort with Pre-Roman Iron Age earthen embankment fortifications located in north Dorset, England, near the River Stour. Tradition holds that invading Romans razed this indigenous stronghold in the first century CE.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/310920749

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
50.8171492848, -2.12204641667

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of earthworks (1000 BC - AD 99) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Crawford Castle (1000 BC - AD 99) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Crawford Castle (English, modern)
- Spetisbury Rings (English, modern)

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Spetisbury Rings receives connections from:

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Place type:
fort, earthwork

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Wikipedia (English) Spetisbury

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Spetisbury Rings: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/310920749> [accessed: 25 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/310920749 |title=Places: 310920749 (Spetisbury Rings) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 25, 2024 6:53 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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