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Boundary earthwork running south from Dunch Hill, through Brigmerston Plantation and Milston Down is a linear defensive or territorial boundary feature situated in the Salisbury Plain area of Wiltshire. The earthwork consists of a ditch and bank system that extends across the landscape from Dunch Hill southwards through Brigmerston Plantation and across Milston Down, forming part of the complex pattern of ancient land divisions and territorial markers characteristic of prehistoric Wessex. Dating evidence and archaeological investigation place this feature within the Iron Age period, when such linear earthworks served to demarcate territorial boundaries and control movement across the chalk downland. The monument represents an important element of the ancient landscape management system and settlement hierarchy of the late prehistoric period in this region.
Boundary earthwork running south from Dunch Hill, through Brigmerston Plantation and Milston Down. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009656. View the official record →
Boundary earthwork running south from Dunch Hill, through Brigmerston Plantation and Milston Down is a linear defensive or territorial boundary feature situated in the Salisbury Plain area of Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009656.
Boundary earthwork running south from Dunch Hill, through Brigmerston Plantation and Milston Down. 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 1009656.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows 380m north east of Straight Walk Plantation: part of a group of round barrows south of Hampshire Gap (8.6 km), Bowl barrow 320m north east of Straight Walk Plantation: one of a group of round barrows south of Hampshire Gap (8.6 km), Round barrow cemetery 250m east of Straight Walk Plantation (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Boundary earthwork running south from Dunch Hill, through Brigmerston Plantation and Milston Down.'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.
Boundary earthwork running south from Dunch Hill, through Brigmerston Plantation and Milston Down. stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.