Knollbury is a scheduled

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

hillfort A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ...

enclosure to the north west of

Chadlington Chadlington is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode Valley about south of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The village has five neighbourhoods: Brookend, Eastend, Greenend, Millend and Westend. Archaeology There is a bowl barrow about west ...

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

. Believed to be defensive in nature the enclosure is rectangular (100 metres by 150 metres) formed by a and earth banks. The two gaps in the earth banks at the eastern corners are believed to be of a later date.English Heritage's Record of Scheduled Monuments, Oxfordshire 30

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Knollbury on the English Heritage's Record of Scheduled Monuments (pdf file)
Neolithic settlements Buildings and structures in Oxfordshire History of Oxfordshire {{Oxfordshire-struct-stub