ring ditch ([Co]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... ditch [Co] A bedrock cut ditch or trench of circular or penannular plan, usually identified through aerial photography either as soil marks or cropmarks. When excavated, ring ditches are usually found to be the ploughed‐out remains of a round barrow where the barrow mound has completely disappeared, leaving only the infilled former quarry ditch...
ring ditch
Windmill Hill, Wiltshire, England
penannular
spatial association
bosing
round barrow
Navan, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland
bowl barrow
Tlachtga
Woodhenge, Durrington, Wiltshire, England
ringfort
castle
henge, hengle Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
...hengle 1. Hinge . 2. Class of ancient monument consisting of a bank and internal ditch enclosing a circular area, e.g. ‘Giant’s Ring’, near Belfast. 3. Prehistoric stone circle with ‘hanging’ elements, e.g. the lintels at Stonehenge, Wilts....
penannular ([De]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [De] In the shape of a ring, but with a break at one point. Often used to describe brooches and torcs as well as arrangements of posts, slots, and ditches forming the walls of round houses and...
spatial association ([Th]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
...association [Th] An assumed close relationship between two or more archaeological items (objects or structural elements) because of their physical proximity and/or location relative to other more securely relatable items. Thus, for example, a pit situated in the centre of a ring ditch can be said to be spatially associated with it even though there is no physical...
Windmill Hill, Wiltshire, England ([Si]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
...Hill, Wiltshire, England [Si] One of the largest causewayed enclosures yet discovered in Britain. It has an area of about 8 ha, and its outer ditch has a diameter of approximately 360 m. The boundary earthworks comprise three roughly concentric rings of interrupted ditches which originally had internal banks. It is notable that the ditches do not lie around the top of the hill, but rather run down the northern slope. Windmill Hill was excavated on several occasions, most notably between 1925 and 1939 by Alexander Keiller , in 1957–8 by Isobel...
bosing ([Te]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Te] A low‐tech technique for locating buried ditches and pits at sites with a solid underlying natural bedrock (e.g. chalk or limestone) and relatively thin stratigraphy. The procedure is to place a block of wood on the ground surface and then hit it hard with a sledge‐hammer. A dull thud will be heard where there are disturbances in the bedrock while a sharper ring is emitted where undisturbed bedrock lies below the topsoil. By systematically working across a site and mapping the sounds, the distribution and extent of bedrock cut features can be worked...
Avebury, Wiltshire, England ([Si]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
...Wiltshire, England [Si] The largest and finest henge monument in Britain, set on the rolling chalk downlands of southern England near the headwaters of the River Kennet. The great ditch encloses an area of 11.5 ha and has a diameter of 350 m. On the inner edge of the ditch stood a ring of 98 stones. Near the centre of the henge were two smaller stone circles with internal settings. Limited excavation within the interior of the site revealed very little, as is the case at most henge monuments. It is, however, known that prior to its construction in...
Krog Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...for someone living near the village tavern, from Middle Low German krōch ‘tavern, inn’, or a nickname for a drinker. 3 North German: topographic name from Middle Low German krōch ‘pasture or planted field surrounded by a fence, wall, or ditch’. 4 Croatian: nickname or topographic name from dialect krog ‘circle, ring’, in the topographic sense also ‘wood,...
