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Rotherley Down is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in Wiltshire comprising Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains. The site preserves evidence of occupation spanning the late Iron Age into the Roman period, with archaeological investigation revealing domestic structures and associated features characteristic of rural settlement patterns in the region. The monument represents important evidence for continuity of habitation across the Iron Age to Romano-British transition, a significant period in understanding settlement dynamics in Wiltshire. The physical remains visible on the down today form part of a broader landscape of prehistoric and Romano-British activity that characterises the chalk downland of central southern England.
Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Rotherley Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020963. View the official record →
Rotherley Down is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in Wiltshire comprising Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains.
Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Rotherley 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 1020963.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Disc barrow and a bowl barrow 640m south west of Veiny Cheese Pond (8.2 km), Bowl barrow 700m south of Old Turnpike (8.7 km), Barrow on Parsonage Hill (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Rotherley 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.
Iron Age and Romano-British settlement remains on Rotherley Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.