Pimperne Troy-town

Documented by the great English antiquary John Aubrey in 1686 as part of his systematic recording of British monuments, the Pimperne Troy-town in Dorset was ploughed up and destroyed in 1730 — making Aubrey's description its only surviving record. Dorset's archaeological richness — Maiden Castle, the Cerne Abbas Giant, the Dorset Cursus — places even a lost labyrinth in a landscape of extraordinary ritual density. At 319.72° Giza bearing, Pimperne lies on the Wessex chalk downlands where prehistoric track systems connect major ceremonial sites. The deliberate destruction through ploughing in the 18th century reflects the agricultural revolution's erasure of ritual landscapes — a process repeated at thousands of sacred sites across England between 1700-1850.