Shearplace Hill Enclosure

The Shearplace Hill Enclosure is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.

Sites of this type, interpreted as domestic settlements, have mostly been found on downland of central southern England, usually situated on hillsides.

[1] The site, covering about 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres), is on a north facing slope of Shearplace Hill, which overlooks to the west the valley of Sydling Water.

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.

Finds included pottery of the Deverel–Rimbury culture, loom weights, flint scrapers and animal bones.