The two most frequent monument types represented by ring ditches are roundhouses ( where the'ditch'is actually a foundation slot or eaves drip gully ) and round barrows.
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In 2009 during a rebuilding programme at the nearby Clare Primary School, postholes of a late Bronze / Early Iron Age structure were located, with an associated ring ditch.
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When excavated, ring ditches are usually found to be the ploughed out remains of a round barrow where the barrow mound has completely disappeared, leaving only the infilled former quarry ditch.
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The discovery, found using ground-penetrating radar and magnetometers, suggested that the large circular ditch had been dug out in scoops ( i . e . a causewayed ring ditch ).
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The sections excavated allowed dating of the ring ditch but did not reveal any artifacts or archaeological evidence with the exception of charcoal recovered from the base which was dated at 2570-2300 cal.
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Just south of this is another one of the three major round barrows, and it was around high as of 1969 . Between this and the southernmost of the three major barrows is a ring ditch, which might be another barrow.
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One plough-damaged barrow on Gallibury Down was excavated during 1979-80 and dated to between 1600-1400 BCE . There is also evidence from aerial photographs of ring ditches ( the remains of barrows ) on the limestone near Bembridge.
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Prehistoric tools were found in the complex of ring ditches and other crop marks near the Mere in the north-west of the parish; when a Bronze Age barrow nearby was destroyed in 1836'hundreds of urns in rows'were found.
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Prehistoric tools were found in the complex of ring ditches and other crop marks near the Mere in the north-west of the parish; when a Bronze-Age barrow nearby was destroyed in 1836'hundreds of urns in rows'were found.
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East of the Mamor?River and centered on the town of Baures and the Baures River is an area of many forested islands, mostly natural, which were inhabited and circled by ditched agricultural fields, ring ditches, fish weirs, and many canals and zigzag causeways.
