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Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the round barrow cemetery on Horton Down in Wiltshire. The monument takes the form of a bell-shaped barrow, a variant of the round barrow tradition characteristic of the second millennium before the common era. As a component of a larger barrow cemetery, it represents the concentrated funerary landscape typical of Bronze Age ritual practice on the Wessex chalk downlands. The site is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and recorded on the National Heritage List for England.
Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018549. View the official record →
Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings is a Bronze Age burial mound forming part of the round barrow cemetery on Horton Down in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018549.
Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton 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 1018549.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site (4.4 km), Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill (4.5 km), Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down'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.
Bell barrow 660m south east of Beckhampton Buildings, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Horton Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.