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Five barrows NW of Heath Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lincolnshire. The site comprises five distinct barrows arranged across the landscape, representing typical funerary practices of the Bronze Age period, when such mounded earthworks served as communal or individual burial monuments. The barrows form part of the wider archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and ritual activity in the region. As a scheduled monument, the site retains significant archaeological value for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in Lincolnshire.
Five barrows NW of Heath Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004998. View the official record →
Five barrows NW of Heath Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Lincolnshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004998.
Five barrows NW of Heath 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 1004998.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Barrow SW of Stroxton, on parish boundary (1 km), King Lud's Intrenchments and adjacent barrow (3.4 km), Denton village cross (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Five barrows NW of Heath 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.
Five barrows NW of Heath Farm stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.