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Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument located in Wiltshire, consisting of a substantial circular or oval ditched enclosure. The site's defensive or ceremonial function remains subject to archaeological interpretation, though its scale and construction suggest a significant settlement or gathering place of prehistoric date. The earthwork survives as a visible landscape feature comprising banks and ditches that define the enclosure's boundary, and it forms part of the broader archaeological record of Wiltshire's chalk downland occupation during the later prehistoric period.
Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004735. View the official record →
Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill is a Neolithic or Bronze Age monument located in Wiltshire, consisting of a substantial circular or oval ditched enclosure. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004735.
Earthwork enclosure on Milk 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 1004735.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden (5.6 km), Medieval village site (6 km), Strip lynchet system north of Chisman's Cleeve (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Earthwork enclosure on Milk 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.
Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.