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An enclosure and two bowl barrows 180m east of Putts Corner is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill in Devon. The site comprises an earthwork enclosure with two associated bowl barrows, a common funerary form of the Bronze Age period. Such barrow cemeteries on elevated locations like Gittisham Hill reflect the ritual and settlement patterns of prehistoric communities in Devon, with multiple burial monuments clustered together suggesting repeated use of significant landscape locations across generations. The monument survives as an archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practice and territorial organisation in the region.
An enclosure and two bowl barrows 180m east of Putts Corner, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014252. View the official record →
An enclosure and two bowl barrows 180m east of Putts Corner is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014252.
An enclosure and two bowl barrows 180m east of Putts Corner, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill 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 1014252.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (2 km), Two bowl barrows on the parish boundary to the south west of the B3174, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (2 km), Two bowl barrows to the north west of Roncombe Gate Farm, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill (2.4 km).
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An enclosure and two bowl barrows 180m east of Putts Corner, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Gittisham Hill stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.