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Settlement and field system on Black Hill is a Bronze Age and Iron Age monument located in Dorset, comprising the substantial earthwork remains of domestic occupation and associated agricultural land use. The site preserves evidence of settlement activity spanning from the Bronze Age through the Iron Age, demonstrating patterns of habitation and land management across an extended period. The physical remains include settlement enclosures and field boundaries marked by banks and ditches, which together illustrate the relationship between residential and productive areas in prehistoric Dorset. These earthworks provide valuable archaeological evidence for understanding settlement hierarchy, agricultural practice, and land use patterns during the later prehistoric period in southern England.
Settlement and field system on Black Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002846. View the official record →
Settlement and field system on Black Hill is a Bronze Age and Iron Age monument located in Dorset, comprising the substantial earthwork remains of domestic occupation and associated agricultural land use. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002846.
Settlement and field system on Black 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 1002846.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 380m west of Whitfield Farm (8.9 km), Poundbury Camp, associated monuments and section of Roman aqueduct. (9.2 km), Colliton Park Roman house (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Settlement and field system on Black 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.
Settlement and field system on Black Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.