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Berry Ring
	A distant view of Berry Ring (left of picture), seen from Stafford Castle
	Shown within Staffordshire
Location	near Stafford, Staffordshire
Coordinates	52°47′16″N 2°10′07″W / 52.7879°N 2.1685°W
OS grid reference	SJ 887 212
Type	Hillfort
Area	3 hectares (7.4 acres)
History
Periods	Iron Age
Scheduled monument
Designated	17 March 1926
Reference no.	1013163

Berry Ring (also known as Bury Ring) is an Iron Age hillfort in Staffordshire, England, lying some two miles southwest of the county town of Stafford, a mile to the southwest of Stafford Castle and half a mile to the west of the M6 motorway.

Description

It is a univallate hillfort, roughly oval in shape, on the northern part of elevated land north of the village of Billington. The defences, following the contours of the ground, enclose an area of about 3 hectares (7.4 acres).^[1]

The rampart is about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high in the south-east, elsewhere about 0.2 metres (7.9 in) high. The outer ditch is up to 18 metres (59 ft) wide and 4 to 4.7 metres (13 to 15 ft) deep. A counterscarp bank can be seen in the north, west and south, most clearly in the north-west where it is 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) high and 14 metres (46 ft) wide. The original entrance is thought to be in the south; its features are unclear because of sand and gravel extraction in recent times. There are other later entrances.^[1]

There is a spring-fed pond within the fort at the north-east side. There have been chance finds around the interior of flints, Iron Age pottery and medieval pottery.^[1]