The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, Ed.

VINDOCLADIA (Badbury Rings) Dorset, England.

Although only 90 m high, this little hill-fort occupies an important vantage-point. The roughly egg-shaped enclosure, which has not been excavated, has two lines of defense surrounded by a slighter rampart and ditch, with two narrow entrances at the ends. At the crossing of two Roman roads immediately W of the fort lay the Roman posting-station of Vindocladia. Beside the road which leads towards Dorchester (Durnovaria) lie three mounds which are probably funerary monuments of Roman date.

---

BIBLIOGRAPHY

O.G.S. Crawford & A. Keiller, Wessex from the Air (1928).

M. TODD