Figsbury Ring

I only spotted this on the way home as I took a wrong turning. Parking in a layby I looked across and thought “hello, what’s that?“. Checking the map, the opportunity was too good to miss, and we carefully made our way up the deeply rutted track to the even more deeply rutted car park.

As others have said, the ‘fort’ is impressive. I was totally unprepared for the inner ditch, and knew right away that this was special in some way. It’s a bit too ‘jagged’ for a proper henge ditch, to my mind, and looks a bit rough and ready.

Great views though, and a large and varied butterfly population.