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Scratchbury Hill Monuments is an Iron Age hillfort situated in Wiltshire, England, comprising a substantial multivallate defensive enclosure constructed during the later prehistory of Britain. The site incorporates round barrows and associated earthwork enclosures within and around the hillfort complex, indicating successive periods of use and ritual activity spanning the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods. The hillfort itself is defined by multiple banks and ditches forming its principal defensive works, which command views across the surrounding landscape characteristic of prominent Iron Age settlement locations in southern England. The monument is designated as a nationally important archaeological site reflecting the concentrated prehistoric activity and settlement hierarchy evident across the Wiltshire chalk downlands.
Scratchbury Hill Monuments: Iron age hillfort, round barrows and enclosures is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010213. View the official record →
Scratchbury Hill Monuments is an Iron Age hillfort situated in Wiltshire, England, comprising a substantial multivallate defensive enclosure constructed during the later prehistory of Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010213.
Scratchbury Hill Monuments: Iron age hillfort, round barrows and enclosures 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 1010213.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork enclosure in Great Ridge wood, 350m north east of Point Pond (8 km), Scrubbed Oak enclosure and linear boundary earthwork (8.2 km), Earthwork enclosure in Penning Wood, 290m NE of Penning (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Scratchbury Hill Monuments: Iron age hillfort, round barrows and enclosures'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.
Scratchbury Hill Monuments: Iron age hillfort, round barrows and enclosures stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.