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Ladle Hill is a Late Iron Age hillfort located near Basingstoke in Hampshire, England. The fort remains notable for being an unfinished defensive work, with its ramparts and ditches left incomplete, possibly abandoned due to the Roman invasion of Britain around 43 AD. The site also contains Bronze Age burial monuments in the form of a saucer barrow and a disc barrow, indicating the long history of human activity on this elevated location. Linear earthworks crossing the hillfort represent later field systems or territorial boundaries, demonstrating the landscape's continued use and modification through subsequent periods.
An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012038. View the official record →
Ladle Hill is a Late Iron Age hillfort located near Basingstoke in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012038.
An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012038.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m east of Thorn Down: one of the group known as Seven Barrows (2.1 km), Round barrow 150yds (140m) E of The Hassock (4.1 km), Earthworks in Danegrove Copse (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.