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Four bowl barrows at Allington Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the Cambridgeshire chalklands, situated approximately 420 metres south west of Allington Hill Farm. The site comprises four round barrows of typical Bronze Age bowl type, which would have functioned as burial mounds for members of the Bronze Age community. Such barrow clusters are characteristic of Bronze Age burial practice in East Anglia, typically dating to the period between approximately 2000 and 1000 BCE. The monument represents an important survival of Bronze Age ritual and mortuary practices in the region, contributing to the archaeological understanding of settlement patterns and social organisation during the Bronze Age on the East Anglian chalklands.
Four bowl barrows at Allington Hill, 420m south west of Allington Hill Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016820. View the official record →
Four bowl barrows at Allington Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the Cambridgeshire chalklands, situated approximately 420 metres south west of Allington Hill Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016820.
Four bowl barrows at Allington Hill, 420m south west of Allington Hill 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 1016820.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British settlement 200m west of Allington Hill (0.6 km), Five bowl barrows 270m north of Hare Park Stud (1.2 km), Causewayed enclosure 900m west of Great Wilbraham parish church (4.4 km).
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