Details

A double ditched causewayed enclosure. It is irregular in plan with an inner
area of c.75h acres. There is a rifle butt built into the south-west corner.
Neolithic pottery has been found and excavation of the ditches took place in
the 1950's.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland
archaeological remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury
Plain, particularly in those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain
Training Area. These remains represent one of the few extant
archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are considered to be of
special significance because they differ in character from those in
other areas with comparable levels of preservation. Individual sites on
Salisbury Plain are seen as being additionally important because the
evidence of their direct association with each other survives so well.

Causewayed enclosures represent a major category of site during the
neolithic, fulfilling a range of settlement and ceremonial functions.
Causewayed enclosures are rare nationally and would normally be
considered worthy of protection. Only a single example, Robin Hood's
Ball, is recorded in the Salisbury Plain Training Area. The monument
forms the focus of a series of prehistoric funerary monuments all of
which are considered to be nationally important in their own right.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)

Source: Historic England