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Earthworks on Loscombe Hill is a Bronze Age or Iron Age defended settlement located in Dorset, comprising substantial banks and ditches that define an enclosed hilltop position. The monument consists of concentric or multiple linear earthwork boundaries that served defensive and organizational functions, typical of prehistoric hillforts or enclosures of the late Bronze Age through Iron Age periods. The site's topographical situation on elevated ground would have provided both strategic advantage and visibility across the surrounding landscape. These earthworks represent important evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and social organization in Dorset during the later prehistoric period.
Earthworks on Loscombe Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002820. View the official record →
Earthworks on Loscombe Hill is a Bronze Age or Iron Age defended settlement located in Dorset, comprising substantial banks and ditches that define an enclosed hilltop position. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002820.
Earthworks on Loscombe 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 1002820.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Nine Stones: a small concentric stone circle 750m west of Winterbourne Abbas (10 km), Bell barrow 100m south of Winterbourne Poor Lot, part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot round barrow cemetery (10.1 km), Bowl barrow and pond barrow within Well Bottom Wood, part of the Winterbourne Poor Lot round barrow cemetery (10.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Earthworks on Loscombe 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.
Earthworks on Loscombe Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.