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Up Sydling

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Ringwork)

There are no visible remains

Name	Up Sydling
Alternative Names	Croft's Down
Historic Country	Dorset
Modern Authority	Dorset
1974 Authority	Dorset
Civil Parish	Sydling St Nicholas

Enclosures, now destroyed by ploughing, of Iron Age/Romano-British settlement site and the possible remains of a ringwork.The ringwork was recorded by field investigation in 1955 and survived as a depression 13m internal diameter, and 0.4m deep, surrounded by a bank 4m wide and 0.6m high save on the north where it was poor. Later ploughing has reduced these features. (PastScape))

Gatehouse Comments

PastScape record includes the monument type 'Medieval Ringwork' for this record.Dorset HER records as prehistroic enclosure.Does not now seem to appear even as cropmarks on aerial photo. Since this site is isolated from medieval settlement and not particularly strategic in it's site Gatehouse considers it a doubtful medieval ringwork. It seems to be a hut circle. It is probably that no one has actually ever considered it as medieval and that this is a loose and inaccurate use of the term 'ringwork'.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

199247

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDO2594&resourceID=1012

OS Map Grid Reference	ST632016
Latitude	50.8134994506836
Longitude	-2.52355003356934
Eastings	363210
Northings	101680