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Five barrows and an enclosure on Challacombe Common is a Bronze Age monument complex located on the high moorland of Challacombe Common in Devon. The site comprises five burial barrows arranged within or near an associated linear or curvilinear enclosure, typical of Bronze Age ritual and funerary landscapes on Dartmoor and the surrounding uplands. The barrows represent communal or elite burial practices of the second millennium BCE, whilst the enclosure may have served defensive, ritual, or pastoral functions characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns. The monument group demonstrates the intensity of Bronze Age activity on Devon's upland zones and contributes to understanding prehistoric burial and social organisation in the southwest of England.
Five barrows and an enclosure on Challacombe Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002634. View the official record →
Five barrows and an enclosure on Challacombe Common is a Bronze Age monument complex located on the high moorland of Challacombe Common in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002634.
Five barrows and an enclosure on Challacombe Common 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 1002634.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 100yds (90m) NE of Five Cross Way (5.1 km), Round barrow cemetery 500m east of Little Bray Cross (5.5 km), Round barrow 200ft (60m) NW of Setta Barrow, Bray Common (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Five barrows and an enclosure on Challacombe Common's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Five barrows and an enclosure on Challacombe Common stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.