Five bowl barrows forming the greater part of a round barrow cemetery 200m south west of Stonehenge on Stonehenge Down

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History & significance

Five bowl barrows forming the greater part of a round barrow cemetery 200m south west of Stonehenge on Stonehenge Down is a Bronze Age burial monument complex located in Wiltshire. The barrow cemetery represents a significant funerary landscape from the second and early first millennia before Christ, contemporary with and subsidiary to the more famous Neolithic and Bronze Age monument of Stonehenge itself. The five bowl barrows are characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice, with their simple hemispherical earthen mounds constructed over individual or collective inhumations. Together with other barrows in the wider Stonehenge Down cemetery, they form part of one of England's densest concentrations of prehistoric round barrows, testimony to the continued ritual importance of the Stonehenge landscape during the Bronze Age.

Five bowl barrows forming the greater part of a round barrow cemetery 200m south west of Stonehenge on Stonehenge Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012383. View the official record →

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