- Period (Currency): Restricted. The tradition of building and using Itford Hill style settlements appears from present evidence to have spanned approximately 150-200 years, broadly between the 10th and 8th centuries BC. Individual sites are unlikely to have survived throughout this period except in those cases where there is evidence for major recutting and reconstruction.
- Rarity: Very rare. Only about 20 examples have been confirmed.
- Diversity (Form): Low. Although a number of criteria may be significant (eg. entrances), present evidence suggests a simple division between sites with oval and circular enclosures and those with additional compounds which are rectangular or sub-square in form.
- Period (Representativity): High. Itford Hill style settlements are one of a fairly restricted range of monument classes known for the later prehistoric period. They also provide contexts within which a wide range of data may be recovered.
Assigning scores to these criteria following the scheme set out in the Monuments Evaluation Manual, Itford Hill style settlements yield a class importance value of 40. This places the class roughly two thirds of the way up the list of possible values (max=64).