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Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. The barrows form part of a broader distribution of burial mounds characteristic of the prehistoric landscape of the Wiltshire chalk downs, dating to the Bronze Age period when such earthworks served as communal or individual burial monuments. The surviving earthworks retain their circular form, though their original dimensions and internal structures reflect typical Wessex barrow construction practices of the second millennium BCE. Such monuments are significant as evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial practices in the region, and their preservation contributes to understanding the ritual and social organisation of prehistoric communities in southern England.
Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009473. View the official record →
Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009473.
Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill 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 1009473.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow cemetery in New Plantation 590m ESE of Amesbury Junction (9.1 km), Bowl barrow 250m south east of Tower Hill (9.8 km), Ogbury camp (9.9 km).
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