Chillerton Down

Chillerton Down is downland between the villages of Shorwell and Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight [1]. Across a spur of the hill running north-east to south-west, there are earthworks, originally a rampart, thought to be an unfinished promontory fort of the Iron Age [1]. The feature has been called the Five Barrows, because it has sunk in places, giving the appearance of separate mounds [1]. The rampart is about 84 metres long, 5 metres wide and up to 3 metres high, and there is a depression, formerly a ditch, on the south-west side [1].