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Maumbury Rings is a Romano-British amphitheatre located near Dorchester in Dorset, England. The monument comprises a substantial circular earthwork with a diameter of approximately 90 metres, created during the late first or early second century AD as a place of public gathering and entertainment for the Roman settlement at nearby Durnovaria. The site was later refortified during the English Civil War, when Parliamentary forces constructed artillery emplacements within the Roman structure to defend the town, leaving physical traces of seventeenth-century military engineering superimposed upon the earlier Roman work. The amphitheatre survives today as one of the most significant surviving Romano-British examples of its kind in Britain, preserving evidence of both its original Roman function and its subsequent Civil War adaptation.
Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003204. View the official record →
Maumbury Rings is a Romano-British amphitheatre located near Dorchester in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003204.
Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003204.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields (6.1 km), Preston Roman villa (7.3 km), Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill (7.9 km).
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