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Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down is a Bronze Age and later landscape monument located on the chalk downs near Wroughton in Wiltshire. The site comprises an organized field system with associated earthwork boundaries and enclosures that reflect the agricultural exploitation of the downland during the Bronze Age period and subsequent phases of use. The surviving earthwork remains demonstrate the long-term management of this landscape for pastoral and arable farming, with the field boundaries preserved as banks and ditches that are still visible in the modern topography. The monument represents an important example of ancient field organization on Wessex chalk downland and contributes to understanding settlement patterns and land use in prehistoric and Romano-British Wiltshire.
Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016383. View the official record →
Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down is a Bronze Age and later landscape monument located on the chalk downs near Wroughton in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016383.
Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop 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 1016383.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn (9.1 km), Linear round barrow cemetery 200m ENE of West Kennett long barrow (10.1 km), West Kennet long barrow, 800m south-east of Silbury Hill (10.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop 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.
Field system and earthwork enclosure on Burderop Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.