Bowl barrow 200m north of The Avenue forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery known as the Old King Barrows

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History & significance

Bowl barrow 200m north of The Avenue forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery known as the Old King Barrows is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. The barrow is part of a significant linear cemetery of round barrows that extends across the landscape near The Avenue, a Neolithic ceremonial approach way associated with Stonehenge. As a bowl barrow, it represents the characteristic burial mound form of the Early Bronze Age, constructed as a simple hemispherical earthwork raised over a primary burial. The monument survives as an important element of the Old King Barrows cemetery group and contributes to the archaeological record of mortuary practices and landscape organisation in the Stonehenge region during the Bronze Age period.

Bowl barrow 200m north of The Avenue forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery known as the Old King Barrows is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012378. View the official record →

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