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- A ringwork is a form of fortified defensive structure, usually circular or oval in shape. Ringworks are essentially motte-and-bailey castles without the...
- a result of the pressures of space on ringworks and that the earliest motte-and-baileys were converted ringworks. Finally, there may be a link between...
- Court ringwork is a small, well-preserved medieval fortification located in Cholesbury-****-St Leonards, in Buckinghamshire, England. Ringworks are relatively...
- The ringwork on the Schießberg (German: Ringwall Schießberg) is a, now levelled, early medieval hillfort situated at a height of 422 m above sea level...
- later than 1052. Ringworks are medieval fortifications built and occupied from late Anglo-Saxon times to the later 12th century. A ringwork was a small defended...
- Simpler defensive walls of earth or stone, thrown up around hillforts, ringworks, early castles and the like, tend to be referred to as ramparts or banks...
- independent defensive structures. These simple fortifications were called ringworks. The enceinte was the castle's main defensive enclosure, and the terms...
- of a fortified site or settlement. Hillforts, ringforts or "raths" and ringworks all made use of ditch and rampart defences, and they are the characteristic...
- (404297)". Coflein. RCAHMW. "Castell Bryn Gwyn, Neolithic Henge and Later Ringwork (93836)". Coflein. RCAHMW. "Gnaeus Julius Agricola Governor of Britannia"...
- of England as one of the new administrative areas. De Lacy built a huge ringwork castle defended by a stout double palisade and external ditch on top of...