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Tenants Hill is a multi-period archaeological site located in Dorset that encompasses Bronze Age settlement and land-use evidence. The monument comprises a Bronze Age enclosure with associated linear earthworks and field systems, indicating organised pastoral and agricultural activity during the second millennium BC. A dewpond, a later addition to the landscape, was constructed on the hilltop, serving as a water storage feature for livestock in subsequent periods. The survival of these archaeological features provides evidence of long-term land exploitation and settlement patterns across different prehistoric and historical phases.
Bronze Age enclosure, associated linear earthworks and field system, and a later dewpond on Tenants Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013370. View the official record →
Tenants Hill is a multi-period archaeological site located in Dorset that encompasses Bronze Age settlement and land-use evidence. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013370.
Bronze Age enclosure, associated linear earthworks and field system, and a later dewpond on Tenants 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 1013370.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four bowl barrows 725m ESE of Wears Farm (2 km), Two round barrows on Wears Hill (2.5 km), St Peter's Abbey (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bronze Age enclosure, associated linear earthworks and field system, and a later dewpond on Tenants 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.
Bronze Age enclosure, associated linear earthworks and field system, and a later dewpond on Tenants Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.