Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 350m north of Springbottom Farm buildings on Wilsford Down

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History & significance

Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 350m north of Springbottom Farm buildings on Wilsford Down is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument. The barrow is one of several burial mounds comprising a cemetery that reflects the importance of the Wilsford Down landscape as a focus for ritual deposition and commemoration during prehistoric times. The monument survives as an earthwork and forms part of the wider archaeological heritage of the Salisbury Plain area, which contains some of the densest concentrations of round barrows in Britain. The barrow group of which this monument forms part demonstrates the sustained use of this location for burial purposes across the Bronze Age period.

Bowl barrow forming part of a round barrow cemetery 350m north of Springbottom Farm buildings on Wilsford Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010872. View the official record →

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