EDO4670 - Maumbury Rings, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester; field survey 1954

A field survey was conducted on Maumbury Rings, Dorchester, by J. Rigg of the Ordnance Survey Archaeological Division on the 20 August 1954. His field notes are recorded on the OS record card as follows. This grass-covered earthwork is in a good state of preservation though the summit of the bank, average width 4.0 m, has been mutilated in several places. The sides are steep and in the interior have been mutilated on the East and West sides by a narrow terrace which gives the broken-slope effect as shown on OS plans. In the East the average vertical drop is internally 5.6 m and externally 4.0 m. From the centre of the interior the land slopes gradually up to the only entrance which is in the north east, and fairly steeply up to the top of the bank where the civil war gun platform and ramp has slightly lowered the height of the bank and has made its ascent in the SW more gradual than elsewhere. There is no trace of the internal nor of an external ditch. The finds were seen in the Dorset County Museum. [1]