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Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Wiltshire, England. The barrows form part of a Bronze Age cemetery that reflects the ritual and burial practices of prehistoric communities in the Wessex region during the second millennium BCE. These earthworks survive as substantial mounds that originally contained inhumations and cremations, demonstrating the importance of this elevated location for ceremonial deposition of the dead. The monument group exemplifies the clustering of funerary structures characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns 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, England. 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Four of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.