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Disc barrow on Burderop Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located approximately one kilometre north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm in Wiltshire. The barrow is characterised by a low, flat mound surrounded by a ditch, a form typical of disc barrows from the Bronze Age period. Such monuments represent a distinctive tradition of elite burial practice in southern Britain during the second millennium before the Common Era. The site remains of archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric funerary customs and settlement patterns on the Wiltshire chalk downlands.
Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010457. View the official record →
Disc barrow on Burderop Down is a Bronze Age burial monument located approximately one kilometre north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010457.
Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm 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 1010457.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in The Belt, 350m north east of Hill Barn (9.3 km), Bowl barrow 50m south-east of the `Sanctuary' forming part of the Overton Hill round barrow cemetery. (9.7 km), Bowl barrow 50m south of The Sanctuary on Overton Hill, forming part of the Seven Barrow Hill round barrow cemetery (9.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm'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 on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.