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The henge, round barrow cemeteries and enclosure cropmarks located 510 metres south-west of St Mary's Church is a complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments identified through aerial survey and cropmark evidence in Essex. The site comprises a henge earthwork, multiple burial mounds characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice, and associated enclosure features that together constitute a significant ritual and burial landscape. The cropmark evidence indicates that these monuments, though now largely visible only through differential crop growth patterns, represent substantial archaeological deposits of considerable chronological depth spanning the Neolithic through Bronze Age periods. The site's survival as cropmarks demonstrates the value of aerial archaeological survey in revealing landscape-scale patterns of prehistoric activity that would otherwise remain concealed at ground level.
Henge, round barrow cemeteries and enclosure cropmarks 510m south-west of St Mary's Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1489898. View the official record →
The henge, round barrow cemeteries and enclosure cropmarks located 510 metres south-west of St Mary's Church is a complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments identified through aerial survey and cropmark evidence in Essex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1489898.
Henge, round barrow cemeteries and enclosure cropmarks 510m south-west of St Mary's Church 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 1489898.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crop mark site S of Ardleigh (3.5 km), Neolithic enclosure 510m north-east of Lawford House (3.7 km), Round barrow W of Lawford Hall (4.7 km).
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