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Butterbump round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial site located in Lincolnshire, England, comprising multiple burial mounds characteristic of the period's funerary practices. The site represents a concentrated cemetery of round barrows, a common form of monumental burial during the Bronze Age, indicating significant settlement activity and social organisation in the area during this prehistoric period. Such barrow cemeteries typically served communities over extended periods, with successive burials added to the landscape, creating clusters of earthworks that marked important territorial and ancestral sites. The Butterbump cemetery survives as a scheduled ancient monument and provides archaeological evidence for Bronze Age burial practices and the landscape use of Lincolnshire during the second millennium before the Common Era.
Butterbump round barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003615. View the official record →
Butterbump round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial site located in Lincolnshire, England, comprising multiple burial mounds characteristic of the period's funerary practices. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003615.
Butterbump round barrow cemetery 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 1003615.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castle Hill: a motte castle 250m east of Hanby Hall Farm (3 km), Churchyard cross, St Thomas of Canterbury's churchyard (3.1 km), Bowl barrow at Mill Hill Quarry, 350m north west of Claxby church (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Butterbump round barrow cemetery'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.
Butterbump round barrow cemetery stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.