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Trendle Ring
Trendle Ring Somerset Map.jpg
Plan of earthworks at Trendle Ring
Location Bicknoller, Somerset, England
Area 0.8 hectares (2.0 acres)
Built Iron Age
Reference no. 189562
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Trendle Ring (or Trundle Ring) is a late prehistoric earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Bicknoller in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Site no. 33201). In 2013 it was added to the Heritage at Risk Register due to vulnerability to plant growth.

The word trendle means circle, so it is a tautological place name.

The site, which covers 0.8 hectares (2.0 acres), is surrounded by a single rampart with a ditch and has a simple opening on the East, uphill side. The hillside is steep and there are two areas which may have been more level platforms. It is situated on the slope of a hill which rises 130 m above the ring.

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