Plumtree Village Ring

Has been described as a Rejected Urban Defence

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NamePlumtree Village Ring
Alternative Names
Historic CountryNottinghamshire
Modern AuthorityNottinghamshire
1974 AuthorityNottinghamshire
Civil ParishPlumtree

Part of embankment of NW side of village. This feature is visible also at the SW side SK 611330 and NE SK 615331.

Bank enclosing village - "village ring".

Town End earthwork section only identifiable on CS etc - source for NW-SW section unknown. (Nottinghamshire HER)

(SK 612334) Plumtree. A prominent bank and ditch runs along the NW boundary of the village and may originally have enclosed it. This is presumably a medieval earthwork cf. Saxondale (see SK 63 NE 24), perhaps marking off the home-closes from the arable and pasture beyond (Pevsner and Williamson 1979). (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Recorded in Nottinghamshire HER as "DYKE (DEFENCE)?" and in PastScape, more sensibly, as 'Boundary Bank' and 'Boundary Ditch'. There seems no real question of this being anything other than a boundary marker and stock control barrier.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSK614332
Latitude52.8935394287109
Longitude-1.08855998516083
Eastings461415
Northings333285
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Books

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus; revised by Elizabeth Williamson, 1979, Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (London) p. 290-1