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Pillow mound on Knook Down is a small earthwork mound located in Wiltshire, England. The monument is a pillow mound, a distinctive ridge-and-furrow type structure dating to the medieval period, likely constructed between the 13th and 15th centuries. Such mounds were artificially created to provide drainage and improved habitat for rabbit warrens, reflecting the medieval practice of managing land for the commercial exploitation of rabbits as a valuable food resource. The earthwork survives as a low, elongated mound with characteristic furrows, representing an important example of medieval agricultural and land management practices in the English countryside.
Pillow mound on Knook Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010107. View the official record →
Pillow mound on Knook Down is a small earthwork mound located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010107.
Pillow mound on Knook 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 1010107.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Queen's barrow: a bowl barrow in Queen's Barrow Plantation (8.1 km), Earthwork enclosure in Great Ridge wood, 350m north east of Point Pond (8.6 km), Scrubbed Oak enclosure and linear boundary earthwork (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Pillow mound on Knook 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.
Pillow mound on Knook Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.