Berry Ring Explained

Berry Ring
Map Type:Staffordshire
Map Size:200px
Coordinates:52.7879°N -2.1685°W
Gbgridref:SJ 887 212
Designation1:Scheduled monument
Designation1 Number:1013163
Designation1 Date:17 March 1926

Berry Ring (also known as Bury Ring) is an Iron Age hillfort in Staffordshire, England, lying some two miles southwest of the county town of Stafford, a mile to the southwest of Stafford Castle and half a mile to the west of the M6 motorway.

Description

It is a univallate hillfort, roughly oval in shape, on the northern part of elevated land north of the village of Billington. The defences, following the contours of the ground, enclose an area of about .

The rampart is about high in the south-east, elsewhere about high. The outer ditch is up to wide and 4to deep. A counterscarp bank can be seen in the north, west and south, most clearly in the north-west where it is high and wide. The original entrance is thought to be in the south; its features are unclear because of sand and gravel extraction in recent times. There are other later entrances.There is a spring-fed pond within the fort at the north-east side. There have been chance finds around the interior of flints, Iron Age pottery and medieval pottery.

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