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Disc barrow 600m north-west of Heath Copse is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. The site consists of a low mound surrounded by a ditch, a characteristic form of funerary architecture from the second millennium BC. Such disc barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials and served as focal points for ceremonial activity within their local Bronze Age communities. The monument survives today as an earthwork feature within the Wiltshire landscape, preserving evidence of prehistoric burial practices and settlement patterns.
Disc barrow 600m north-west of Heath Copse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012276. View the official record →
Disc barrow 600m north-west of Heath Copse is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012276.
Disc barrow 600m north-west of Heath Copse 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 1012276.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 345m east of Old Rectory (9.9 km), Devil's ditch: boundary earthwork (10.3 km), Two of four round barrows on Hare Warren (10.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Disc barrow 600m north-west of Heath Copse'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.
Disc barrow 600m north-west of Heath Copse stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.