Bell barrow 450m south east of Greenland Farm, forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery west of the Lesser Cursus

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History & significance

Bell barrow 450m south east of Greenland Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of a linear cemetery of round barrows situated west of the Lesser Cursus in Wiltshire. The barrow belongs to the bell barrow type, a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age variant characterised by a raised mound surrounded by a ditch with an external bank, a configuration that reflects developments in burial practice and ritual landscape use during the third millennium BC. Its position within a linear arrangement of barrows demonstrates the deliberate organisation of funerary monuments across the Wiltshire downs, a pattern characteristic of Bronze Age ceremonial and burial practice. The site contributes to the broader archaeological significance of the Stonehenge landscape, where such barrow cemeteries are integral to understanding prehistoric settlement, social organisation, and landscape modification in southern Britain.

Bell barrow 450m south east of Greenland Farm, forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery west of the Lesser Cursus is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010899. View the official record →

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