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Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument comprising two distinct burial mounds located in Buckinghamshire. The bell barrow, the more prominent earthwork, takes its characteristic form from a central mound surrounded by a flat berm and an encircling ditch, a design typical of high-status burials from the early Bronze Age period. The adjacent pond barrow, identifiable by its distinctive central depression or pond feature within a surrounding bank, represents a variant form of Bronze Age ceremonial earthwork. Together these monuments form an important group that contributes to understanding Bronze Age burial practices and the landscape organisation of prehistoric Buckinghamshire.
Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013935. View the official record →
Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument comprising two distinct burial mounds located in Buckinghamshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013935.
Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe 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 1013935.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site in Chalkdell Wood, 100m north west of Frith Hill House (7 km), Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.02km long section from west of White House Farm to Lily Bank Farm (7 km), Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 176m long section south west of White House Farm (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bell barrow and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill'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 and pond barrow on Bacombe Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.