Two linear earthworks, two barrows and Iron Age and Romano-British settlements on Tidpit Common Down

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History & significance

Tidpit Common Down is a scheduled ancient monument in Wiltshire comprising a complex of prehistoric and later archaeological features including two linear earthworks, two barrows, and the remains of Iron Age and Romano-British settlements. The linear earthworks likely served defensive or territorial functions within the later prehistoric landscape, whilst the barrows represent Bronze Age or earlier burial monuments characteristic of Wiltshire's downland. The Iron Age and Romano-British settlement evidence indicates continuity of occupation through the later prehistoric period into the Roman period, reflecting patterns of habitation and land use across the Salisbury Plain region. Together these features constitute an important archaeological palimpsest documenting human activity and settlement patterns across more than a millennium of prehistory and the early historic period.

Two linear earthworks, two barrows and Iron Age and Romano-British settlements on Tidpit Common Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010762. View the official record →

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