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Bilbury Rings is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure situated near Devizes in Wiltshire. The monument comprises two concentric rings of ditches with internal banks, characteristic of causewayed enclosures of the fourth millennium BC, a form of settlement and gathering place used during the early Neolithic period. The site remains largely unexcavated, though surface archaeology and aerial photography have confirmed its structure and classification within the established corpus of similar monuments across southern England. Its survival as an upstanding earthwork makes it an important example of Neolithic monumental architecture in the Wiltshire landscape.
Bilbury Rings is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005601. View the official record →
Bilbury Rings is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure situated near Devizes in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005601.
Bilbury Rings 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 1005601.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chalk military badges on Fovant Down (7.9 km), Chiselbury Camp hillfort, cross dykes and site of turnpike toll house (8.1 km), Hydon Hill round barrows (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bilbury Rings'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.
Bilbury Rings stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.