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Barrow and cairn cemetery on Black Hill, 490 metres north west of Crowcombe Park Gate, is a Bronze Age burial landscape comprising multiple funerary monuments. The site consists of a substantial barrow mound alongside associated cairn features, typical of the Bronze Age burial practices that characterised the Quantock Hills region during the second millennium BC. The monuments are situated at high altitude on Black Hill, where such elevated positions were frequently selected for burial sites during prehistory, affording them prominence in the surrounding landscape. The cemetery represents important evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and funerary ritual in the Somerset uplands, with the physical remains providing archaeological insight into prehistoric population distribution and burial customs.
Barrow and cairn cemetery on Black Hill, 490m north west of Crowcombe Park Gate is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019381. View the official record →
Barrow and cairn cemetery on Black Hill, 490 metres north west of Crowcombe Park Gate, is a Bronze Age burial landscape comprising multiple funerary monuments. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019381.
Barrow and cairn cemetery on Black Hill, 490m north west of Crowcombe Park Gate 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 1019381.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn 280m south of Triscombe Stone (3.1 km), Two cairns, 780m ESE of Triscombe Farm (3.3 km), Three round cairns on Wills Neck (3.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Barrow and cairn cemetery on Black Hill, 490m north west of Crowcombe Park Gate's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Barrow and cairn cemetery on Black Hill, 490m north west of Crowcombe Park Gate stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.