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Earthworks on Marlborough Common is a complex of Bronze Age and Iron Age defensive and ceremonial monuments located on the chalk downland of Marlborough Common in Wiltshire. The site comprises multiple linear earthworks, ditches, and banks that reflect prehistoric settlement and land management practices across a considerable period. The monuments are consistent with the intensive occupation and territorial organisation characteristic of the later prehistoric period in Wessex, indicating the strategic importance of this location on the Wiltshire downs. The site remains an important testimony to Bronze and Iron Age settlement patterns and continues to inform understanding of prehistoric land use in the region.
Earthworks on Marlborough Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005635. View the official record →
Earthworks on Marlborough Common is a complex of Bronze Age and Iron Age defensive and ceremonial monuments located on the chalk downland of Marlborough Common in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005635.
Earthworks on Marlborough Common 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 1005635.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 400m south-east of Culley's Farm Cottages (5 km), Wansdyke: section from S of Furze Hill to Marlborough-Pewsey road (5.5 km), Withy Copse ditch (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Earthworks on Marlborough Common'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 Marlborough Common stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.