Ladle Hill

Ladle Hill is perhaps the best known of all of the unfinished hillforts in Britain [1]. It was first correctly identified as an unfinished hillfort and described in detail by the archaeologist Stuart Piggott in 1931 [1]. At Ladle Hill it has long been suspected that the area demarcated by the unfinished earthworks never actually contained a settlement, although there is a possibility that the hillfort was to be constructed over an earlier unenclosed settlement [1]. Apart from the dumps of material associated with the abandoned construction works, the interior has very few other earthworks of intelligible character [1].