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Barrow E of Common Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cambridgeshire. The monument survives as an earthwork mound and forms part of a barrow cemetery in the vicinity of Common Farm, reflecting the funerary practices of the Bronze Age period. Such barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods indicative of the social status of the deceased. The site's survival and formal designation as a heritage monument underscores its importance for understanding Bronze Age settlement, burial custom, and social organisation in the East Anglian landscape.
Barrow E of Common Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006916. View the official record →
Barrow E of Common Farm is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Cambridgeshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006916.
Barrow E of Common Farm 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 1006916.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 250m ESE of Common Farm: part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Block Fen (0.1 km), Bowl barrow 200m SE of Horseley Fen Farm (2.1 km), Round barrow 690m SSW of Stocking Drove Farm (3.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Barrow E of Common Farm'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 E of Common Farm stands on West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Kimmeridgian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.