South Lodge camp Bronze Age enclosure with associated field system and round barrow cemetery, 350m east of Rushmore Farm

South Lodge camp is a Bronze Age site on Cranborne Chase in Wiltshire. It lies on a gentle west-facing slope above a dry valley, about one kilometre south-east of Tollard Royal village. The scheduled monument includes a Martin Down style enclosure and a cemetery of six round barrows nearby at Barrow Pleck. The enclosure covers roughly 0.3 hectares with an entrance on the west side. Nearby lynchets mark the remains of an old field system that once spread further across the landscape. Augustus Pitt Rivers excavated the site between 1880 and 1893 after inheriting the Rushmore Estate. He reconstructed the enclosure and barrows, adding concrete plinths to mark cremation spots inside the barrows. Later, from 1977 to 1981, John Barrett, Richard Bradley and Martin Green re-excavated the site. They found two round timber buildings and a burnt flint mound likely used for cooking. The Salisbury Museum holds a Bronze Age clay urn recovered from the enclosure ditch. Visitors walk among the reconstructed barrows and the enclosure’s low earthworks. The surviving lynchets rise up to 0.75 metres high, showing where ancient fields once lay. Radiocarbon dating places occupation here from about 1250 BC to 1050 BC. The site offers a quiet view over the dry valley, with no modern buildings in sight.