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Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill

England
List entry 1009695
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1009695
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.24 hectares
Grid reference
SU 18786 46939
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bell barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located on Silk Hill in Wiltshire, England. The site consists of a circular earthwork with a distinctive bell-shaped profile, characterised by a central mound surrounded by a ditch and an outer bank, which gives the monument its name. It forms part of a wider barrow cemetery on Silk Hill, reflecting the intensive use of this landscape for burial during the third and second millennia before the present era. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains a significant example of ritual funerary architecture from prehistoric southern England.

Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009695. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill?

Bell barrow is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age funerary monument located on Silk Hill in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009695.

Who is responsible for protecting Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill?

Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk 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 1009695.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery in New Plantation 590m ESE of Amesbury Junction (9.2 km), Ogbury camp (9.7 km), Bowl barrow 200m WNW of Lake House (9.7 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Target Zones
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Round barrow cemetery in New Plantation 590m ESE of Amesbury Junction
9.2 km
Ogbury camp
9.7 km
Bowl barrow 200m WNW of Lake House
9.7 km
Deserted medieval village, a bowl barrow, and part of a prehistoric field system opposite Lake House in Lake Bottom
9.9 km
Bowl barrow 250m south east of Tower Hill
9.9 km
Saucer barrow 400m north east of the sports ground: one of a group of round barrows north west of Idmiston Down
10.1 km
Bell barrow 250m NNE of the sports ground: one of a group of round barrows north west of Idmiston Down
10.1 km
Bell barrow 300m ENE of the sports ground: one of a group of round barrows north west of Idmiston Down
10.3 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill

Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill

StonehengeArchaeological site · ~5 milesOld SarumArchaeological site · ~9.3 milesWest Kennet Long BarrowArchaeological site · ~13.6 milesMildenhallRoman town · ~14.1 milesBattle of Roundway Down 1643Battle (1643) · ~15.7 milesFirst Battle of NewburyBattle (1643) · ~20.2 miles
Domesday entry for Brigmerston, Wiltshire →
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