The Ringmoor settlement is an Iron Age/Romano-British farming settlement in Dorset, England. It is between the villages of Okeford Fitzpaine and Turnworth, and lies on east-facing slopes of Bell Hill, on the Dorset Downs.
The site is owned by the National Trust,"Earthwork Remains of Turnworth Iron Age Settlement, Ringmoor" National Trust. Retrieved 29 June 2020. and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Earthworks The site is well preserved in unploughed downland. There is a farmstead, an oval enclosure about by , with an entrance on the east; inside are levelled areas, thought to be the sites of buildings. Outside the enclosure, trackways and field systems are still clearly visible as banks in the grassland.
More recent occupation
Ringmoor Cottages, built in the mid 19th century, once stood on the site, but they were vacated and demolished in the early 1950s.'Turnworth', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, Central (London, 1970), pp. 290–292 British History Online. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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