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Penbury Knoll camp is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure located on Pentridge Hill in Dorset. The monument consists of interrupted ditch systems defining an oval or circular earthwork, characteristic of causewayed camps dating to the early Neolithic period, approximately 3700 to 3500 BCE. These enclosures served multiple functions including ritual gathering places, livestock corrals, and centres of community activity. The site remains an important archaeological record of early farming settlement in southern Britain, though like many such monuments its precise original appearance and use continue to inform ongoing scholarly investigation.
Penbury Knoll camp on Pentridge Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002717. View the official record →
Penbury Knoll camp is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure located on Pentridge Hill in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002717.
Penbury Knoll camp on Pentridge 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 1002717.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of henge monuments, an associated group of round barrows, a Saxon cemetery, and a Norman church at Knowlton (7.3 km), Round barrow cemetery south of New Barn Farm, associated with the Knowlton Circles (7.7 km), Bowl barrow 240m north east of Martin's Farm Bungalow (8.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Penbury Knoll camp on Pentridge 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.
Penbury Knoll camp on Pentridge Hill stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.