Four bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere Castle

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History & significance

Four bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere Castle is a Bronze Age funerary monument comprising four round barrows situated on elevated ground near Mere in Wiltshire. The barrows represent a characteristic form of burial architecture from the Bronze Age period, when such earthworks served as communal or individual burial monuments across the chalk downlands of southern England. The grouping on Long Hill reflects the clustering pattern common to many Bronze Age barrow cemeteries, where multiple burial mounds were constructed in proximity to one another, likely over an extended period. These earthworks, though subject to the inevitable degradation of their original form through agricultural activity and natural processes over more than three millennia, remain significant evidence of Bronze Age funerary practice and settlement patterns in the Mere locality.

Four bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016569. View the official record →

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