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Billings Ring large univallate hillfort

Scheduled monument
Billings Ring large univallate hillfort
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The National Heritage List for England records Billings Ring large univallate hillfort as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Billings Ring is a large univallate hillfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, and is recorded as a scheduled monument in the National Heritage List for England. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairy forts, which were often believed to be entrances to the Otherworld or inhabited by supernatural beings in Irish and British tradition.

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