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Five Knolls is a round barrow cemetery located on Dunstable Down in Bedfordshire, comprising seven burial mounds of Bronze Age date. The site consists of three bell barrows, two bowl barrows, and two pond barrows, representing a significant concentration of funerary monuments from the second millennium BCE. These distinctive earthwork forms reflect different burial practices and social distinctions within Bronze Age communities, with the bell and bowl barrows being the most common types and the pond barrows representing a more specialized funerary tradition. The cemetery demonstrates the ritual importance of the Dunstable Down landscape during the Bronze Age and remains one of the notable barrow groups in Bedfordshire.
Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009892. View the official record →
Five Knolls is a round barrow cemetery located on Dunstable Down in Bedfordshire, comprising seven burial mounds of Bronze Age date. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009892.
Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable Down 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 1009892.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow on Ivinghoe Hills, 240m south of Ivinghoe Beacon trig pillar: part of the Beacon Hill round barrow cemetery (6.4 km), Earthwork at Wards Coombe (6.4 km), Bowl barrow on Ivinghoe Hills, 460m south of Ivinghoe Beacon trig pillar: part of the Beacon Hill round barrow cemetery (6.5 km).
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