An Iron Age hill-fort situated on a prominent domed knoll commanding wide views in all directions. Multiple ramparts and V-shaped ditches enclose a roughly oval area of around 17 acres. In 1975 the inner rampart was described as 60 to 80 feet wide and rising to 10 feet above the interior and up to 25 feet above the bottom of the adjacent ditch, 40 feet wide. The outer rampart was described as rising up to 18 feet above the inner ditch and 15 to 22 feet above the outer ditch, which is 40 feet wide and up to 6 feet deep. The hillfort has a simple entrance on the east and a rather more elaborate one on the western side, protected by an additional bank between the two ramparts. This entrance was later simplified by being cut through, possibly in the Roman period. The site was digitally plotted from lidar imagery during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project.
| --- | SDO14228 - Unpublished document: Papworth, M. 1994. Shapwick Parish, Kingston Lacy Estate, Wessex Region. 58. |
| --- | SDO14690 - Unpublished document: Papworth, M. 2001. Badbury Rings, Shapwick. Interim report on the west side of the hillfort interior.. |
| --- | SDO17130 - Digital archive: Lock, G, and Ralston, I. 2017. Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland [ONLINE]. EN3580. |
| --- | SDO17251 - Unpublished document: Papworth, M. 2005. Excavation and geophysical survey at Badbury Rings 2005: interim report. |
| --- | SDO20668 - Unpublished document: 1976. Badbury Rings Working Party Report. |
| --- | SDO44 - Serial: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. 1945. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1944. 66. 19-30. |
| <1> | SWX1540 - Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map 6in. 6 inch to 1 mile. 1902. |
| <2> | SDO17343 - Map: Ordnance Survey. 1931. Roman Britain. 4th Ed 1978. |
| <3> | SDO129 - Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1975. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East). 61-63. |
| <4> | SDO18034 - Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. 16-NOV-2021. LIDAR Environment Agency DTM. |
| <5> | SDO12591 - Monograph: Crawford, O G S and Keiller, A. 1928. Wessex from the Air. 58-61. |
| <5> | SDO17414 - Monograph: Hogg, A H A. 1979. British hillforts: an index. 205. |
| <7> | SDO19358 - Monograph: Donachie, J D. 1994. RCHME Field Survey Report: Badbury Rings Hillfort, Shapwick, Dorset. |
| <8> | SDO19701 - Unpublished document: Fletcher, M J. RCHME Field Investigation. 12-MAY-1998. |
| <9> | SDO14739 - Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 209560. |