Ringmoor
The Ringmoor settlement is an British Iron Age, Iron Age/Roman Britain, Romano-British farming settlement in Dorset, England. It is between the villages of Okeford Fitzpaine and Turnworth, and lies on east-facing slopes of Bell Hill, Dorset, Bell Hill, on the Dorset Downs. The site is owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust,"Earthwork Remains of Turnworth Iron Age Settlement, Ringmoor"
National Trust. Retrieved 29 June 2020. and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Earthworks

The site is well preserved in unploughed downland. There is a farmstead, an oval enclosure about by , with an entrance on the east; inside are levelled areas, thought to be the sites of buildings. O ...
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Bell Hill, Dorset
At 258 metres, Bell Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Dorset, England and a high point on the Wessex Ridgeway. Location Bell Hill lies about 5 miles west of Blandford Forum. The village of Ibberton nestles against its southwestern foot, whilst a little further to the northeast, below Okeford Hill on the same ridgeline, is the village of Okeford Fitzpaine.Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series, no. 194 The summit itself lies on a ridge running from northeast to southwest. To the northwest its escarpment drops steeply in to the Blackmore Vale and River Stour, Dorset, Stour Valley, whilst to the southeast the woods of Turnworth Clump and Ringmoor are bracketed by two more ridges, Ibberton Long Down and Turnworth Down, forming a horseshoe with Bell Hill. Another spur runs east from Turnworth Down to Shillingstone Hill, site of a quarry and a popular cross-country race. A trig point on the Wessex Ridgeway marks this subsidiary summit. History There is evidenc ...
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