Disc barrow 700m north-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery

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History & significance

Disc barrow 700m north-east of Sevenbarrows House is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of the Seven Barrows cemetery near Lambourn in Berkshire. The site comprises a circular ditched enclosure with a low central mound, characteristic of the disc barrow form which typically dates to the early to middle Bronze Age. As one of a substantial group of burial monuments clustered in this locality, it represents an important concentration of prehistoric funerary activity and demonstrates the ritual significance of the landscape during the second millennium BCE. The monument survives as an earthwork, visible as a shallow depression defining the encircling ditch with the raised central burial mound.

Disc barrow 700m north-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012343. View the official record →

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