What is recorded here

Ring-ditch in Windmillhill is an incomplete circular enclosure beneath the soil, first revealed in 2018 when geophysical instruments traced its broken curve from south-south-east through west to north-north-east. The missing section suggests the neighbouring cairn later crowded the older boundary, while the clear twenty-five-metre circle and internal archaeological responses point to a deliberate ceremonial place rather than a casual feature. It still lies hidden beside the windmill and within the larger hillfort enclosure, waiting for someone to walk that hill and imagine the hands that shaped it.

Placed centrally within a ceremonial enclosure (DU021-111----) this regular circular enclosure, illustrated as an incomplete ring-ditch was first reported in 2018 in a geophyscial survey (Target Archaeological Geophysics, 2018). It is depicted as an incomplete circuit, running from SSE, through W to NNE, which appears to have been encroached upon and disturbed by the adjacent cairn DU021-113---- (see attached image DU021-113_01). The ring-ditch encloses an area 25m in diameter presenting according to the geophysical report as a series of concentric positive and negative curving responses (ibid.) with no surface expression. Within this enclosure are concentrations of high response suggestive of archaeological activity. The monument lies just SW of DU021-113----, a cairn, and DU-021-038 a windmill. It also lies within another enclosure DU021-016---- which may represent a hillfort. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 29 November 2018

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