Thesaurus Term/Concept: RING DITCH

Identifier 70407
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note Circular or near circular ditches, usually seen as cropmarks. Use the term where the function is unknown. Ring ditches may be the remains of ploughed out round barrows, round houses, or of modern features such as searchlight emplacements.

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Instances/Examples (15)

Context Record
Monument Type MYO3604 Bronze age Barrow Skelton (Monument)
Monument Type MYO3886 circular cropmarks Stockton West Moor possible ring ditch? (Monument)
Monument Type MYO3884 Circular cropmarks Stockton West Moor possible ring ditch? (Monument)
Monument Type MYO5302 Enclosure system and ringed structure (Monument)
Monument Type MYO3671 Heslington East: Iron Age ladder settlement (Monument)
Monument Type MYO364 KNAPTON ring-ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MYO4393 Late Iron Age-Romano-British settlement (Monument)
Monument Type MYO3609 Ring Ditch Nether Poppleton (Monument)
Monument Type MYO3613 Ring Ditch and trackway Acaster malbis (Monument)
Monument Type MYO58 Ring Ditches (Monument)
Monument Type MYO161 ring-ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MYO2720 Ring-ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MYO59 Ring-ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MYO3590 Romano-British site Millfield Farm Wheldrake (Monument)
Monument Type MYO2006 South Farm Kexby (Monument)