A segment of earlier Bronze Age arable landscape incorporating isolated
round barrows on the high chalk spur of Hog Cliff Hill became the chosen
location for a later Bronze Age earthwork of considerable dimensions. The
area excavated within the bank and ditch was densely occupied by two major
phases of buildings of timber construction, lasting into the earliest Iron
Age. Sometime during the early Iron Age the oval enclosure was replaced by a
more substantial one which partly followed its line and contained a series
of unusual structures comprising dry-stone flint banks or wall-footings. The
site was subsequently abandoned, the land probably being returned to
agricultural use, until the Roman period when the agger of the Roman road
from Dorchester to Ilchester was constructed across the earthwork.