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The Settlement and field system on Milton Hill is an ancient monument comprising the remains of a prehistoric settlement with associated agricultural field systems located on Fyfield Down in Wiltshire. The site contains evidence of settlement activity dating to the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods, with field boundaries and enclosures that reflect the organisation of agricultural land use across the downland landscape. The monument represents an important example of the pattern of human occupation and land management practices that characterised the chalk downlands of central southern England during the later prehistoric period. The surviving earthworks include ditched field boundaries and settlement features that demonstrate the relationship between habitation and the management of pastoral and arable resources in antiquity.
Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down) is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004758. View the official record →
The Settlement and field system on Milton Hill is an ancient monument comprising the remains of a prehistoric settlement with associated agricultural field systems located on Fyfield Down in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004758.
Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield 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 1004758.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow: one of two round barrows west of Haxton Down (8.3 km), Enclosure west of Hound Plantation (8.3 km), Enclosure, probably unfinished, west of Sun Plantation (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield 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.
Settlement and field system on Milton Hill (Fyfield Down) stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.