Shearplace Hill Enclosure

The Shearplace Hill Enclosure is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age, about 1.5 miles south-west of Cerne Abbas in Dorset [1]. The site, covering about 0.5 hectares, is on a north facing slope of Shearplace Hill, which overlooks to the west the valley of Sydling Water [1]. There is a series of banks, height up to 1.2 metres, and sunken trackways up to 1.7 metres deep [1]. There was excavation in 1958 by Philip Rahtz [1]. He established that there was a farmstead of several enclosures, the principal enclosure containing two round houses; and that it was occupied from the Middle to Late Bronze Age, when it was abandoned [1].