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Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings

England
List entry 1006682
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1006682
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
14.36 hectares
Grid reference
SX2140255393
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Hall Rings is a univallate hillfort located in Cornwall, England, dating to the Iron Age. The monument comprises a single defensive rampart enclosing the hilltop, accompanied by outworks that extend its fortified perimeter. The site's univallate design, typical of many southwestern Iron Age fortifications, suggests a settlement or stronghold of modest defensive complexity relative to some of its multivallate contemporaries. As a recorded monument of the prehistoric period, Hall Rings contributes to understanding of Iron Age settlement patterns and territorial organization in Cornwall.

Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006682. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings?

Hall Rings is a univallate hillfort located in Cornwall, England, dating to the Iron Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006682.

Who is responsible for protecting Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings?

Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall 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 1006682.

What other scheduled monuments are near Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery 250m south of Wilton Farm (1.7 km), Three bowl barrows 160m west of Little Hendra (2.1 km), Bowl barrow 150m SSE of Cartole (2.4 km).

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Overview
An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.
Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.
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Target Zones
For detectorists: the most promising ground to search nearby, ranked by confidence, with what to expect.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Round barrow cemetery 250m south of Wilton Farm
1.7 km
Three bowl barrows 160m west of Little Hendra
2.1 km
Bowl barrow 150m SSE of Cartole
2.4 km
Bake Rings later prehistoric-Roman round with attached enclosure and outwork
2.6 km
Small stone circle at Duloe, 150m south east of Stonetown Farm
3.6 km
Linear boundary called the Giant's Hedge
3.9 km
Small multivallate hillfort on Bury Down, 530m north-east of South Park
4.7 km
Old Guildhall
4.8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings

Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings stands on Lower Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Slight univallate hillfort with outworks called Hall Rings

Battle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~5.3 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 21 August 1644Battle (1644) · ~6.6 milesBattle of Lostwithiel 31 August - 1 September 1644Battle (1644) · ~6.8 miles
Domesday entry for Pelynt, Cornwall →
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