page_title: Circular rampart
section_title: Notable circular ramparts
hierarchical_section_title: Circular rampart / Notable circular ramparts
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Heidenmauer. Keltischer Ringwall über Bad Dürkheim.
context_page_description: A circular rampart is an embankment built in the shape of a circle that was used as part of the defences for a military fortification, hill fort or refuge, or was built for religious purposes or as a place of gathering.
  The period during which these structures were built ranged from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages.
context_section_description: Viale Beatrice d'Este, Milan, italy
  Aggersborg, near Aggersund, Denmark
  Circular rampart of Burg, near Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
  The Donnersberg, near Rockenhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  Castle Dore, Cornwall, England
  Fyrkat, Denmark
  Gråborg, built in stages between years 500–1100, Öland, Sweden
  The Heidenmauer near Bad Dürkheim, Germany
  Nanih Waiya, a Choctaw mound, Winston County, USA
  The circular rampart at Old Basing, Hampshire, England
  Celtic circular wall of Otzenhausen, Saarland, Germany
  Saxon rampart on the Marienberg near Nordstemmen, Germany
  Viking ring fortress of Trelleborg, Sweden
  Varbola Stronghold largest circular rampart fortress built in Estonia (10th – 12th century)
caption: The Heidenmauer near Bad Dürkheim
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