BAKE RINGS

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A circular enclosure, 94 metres in diameter, with a larger D-shaped enclosure adjoining to the East, was present here and may represent an Iron Age enclosure or possible Medieval ringwork and bailey. It has now been completely ploughed out. Scheduled.

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(SX 187549) Earthwork (NR). (1)

Known as "Bake Rings". Listed under "Defensive enclosures". (2)

A circular camp with a single bank and ditch and an entrance on the SE. An advanced rampart on the S extends half round the former enclousre with an entrance opposite the inner one. (3)

Listed under hill-forts with multiple enclosures.

Bake Rings: two annexed enclosures, heavily ploughed down. Plateau site. (4)

Locally known as 'Bake Rings', the almost circular enclosure about 94.0m diameter is situated on a plateau with a 'D'-shaped outwork or annexe on its E side.
It has been much ploughed down and spread so that the entrance or entrances to each enclosure cannot be determined but the existence of a ditch (originally a bank and ditch, the bank now barely discernible) outside the SE corner seems a possible covering work for a SE entrance.
The interiors of the enclosures are not artificially levelled or made up. Although the possibility of a medieval ring motte and bailey cannot be completely dismissed it would seem more likely to be a round with contemporary annexe; ie an IA/RB settlement and enclosures of pastoral nature.
Surveyed at 1:2500.

(For similar earthworks see SX 36 NW 1, SX 322658; SX 37 SW 12, SX 311725; and SW 97 SW 5, SW 923711). (5)

Bake Rings - feature described as being completely ploughed out by OS Field Reviser. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

( 2a) General reference

Royal Institute of Cornwall Reports 1846 31 plan plate 2 (H M'Lauchlan)

( 2) edited by William Page, F.S.A. 1906 The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall : volume one

The Victoria history of the counties of England (Cornish) 1906 Page(s)462,465

( 3) General reference

Magna Britannia 3 Cornwall 1814 48 (Lysons)

( 4) edited by S S Frere 1961 Problems of the Iron Age in southern Britain

1958 Page(s)56

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 MJF 05-OCT-72

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