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A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down

England
List entry 1017933
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1017933
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
4.93 hectares
Grid reference
SU 22940 51535
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire. The barrows date to the second millennium BC and represent a significant cluster of funerary mounds typical of Bronze Age burial practices in southern England. The site comprises individual earthwork mounds constructed over individual or multiple inhumations, reflecting the ritual and ceremonial importance placed on burial during this period. As a scheduled ancient monument, the barrow group preserves important archaeological evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and mortuary customs in the Wiltshire landscape.

A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017933. View the official record →

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What is A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down?

A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017933.

Who is responsible for protecting A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down?

A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017933.

What other scheduled monuments are near A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 340m WSW of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park (9.4 km), Bowl barrow 130m WSW of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park (9.4 km), Three ditched bowl barrows south of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park (9.4 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow 340m WSW of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park
9.4 km
Bowl barrow 130m WSW of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park
9.4 km
Three ditched bowl barrows south of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park
9.4 km
Bowl barrow 200m south west of Andover Lodge: part of a round barrow cemetery in Barrow Field Clumps, Cholderton Park
9.4 km
Two bowl barrows 200m south of Laundry Bungalows
9.7 km
Bowl barrow 260m SSW of Laundry Bungalows
9.7 km
Wilbury House round barrow
9.8 km
Bowl barrow at the east end of Earl's Farm Down
10.1 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down

A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around A group of sixteen round barrows on Cow Down

StonehengeArchaeological site · ~8.8 milesMildenhallRoman town · ~11.2 milesWest Kennet Long BarrowArchaeological site · ~12.5 milesOld SarumArchaeological site · ~13 milesBattle of Roundway Down 1643Battle (1643) · ~15.9 milesFirst Battle of NewburyBattle (1643) · ~16.5 miles
Domesday entry for Tidworth, Wiltshire →
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