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Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill

England
List entry 1012519
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1012519
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.16 hectares
Grid reference
SU 06682 64799
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Kitchen Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow situated on Kitchen Barrow Hill in Wiltshire, England. The monument represents a characteristic example of early Neolithic burial architecture, dating to approximately 3500 to 2500 BCE, a period when such earthen mounds served as communal sepulchral monuments across southern Britain. The barrow survives as an elongated earthwork, though its original dimensions and structural integrity have been subject to the effects of agricultural use and weathering over millennia. As a scheduled monument and heritage asset, Kitchen Barrow contributes to the archaeological and landscape record of Neolithic Wiltshire, an area of significant prehistoric activity and monumental construction.

Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012519. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill?

Kitchen Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow situated on Kitchen Barrow Hill in Wiltshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012519.

Who is responsible for protecting Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill?

Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow 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 1012519.

What other scheduled monuments are near Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site (1.9 km), Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill (4.8 km), Deserted medieval village E of Manor Farm (4.8 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
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Target Zones
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site
1.9 km
Adam's Grave: a long barrow on Walker's Hill
4.8 km
Deserted medieval village E of Manor Farm
4.8 km
Three bell barrows and a pillow mound 400m south-west of Knap Cottage
5 km
Knap Hill camp near Alton Priors
5.5 km
The Long Monument
6.2 km
The Hatfield Earthwork: a henge enclosure, henge and remains of monumental mound at Marden
7 km
Medieval village site
7.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill

Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Kitchen Barrow: a long barrow on Kitchen Barrow Hill

West Kennet Long BarrowArchaeological site · ~2.7 milesSilbury HillArchaeological site · ~3.1 milesAveburyArchaeological site · ~3.9 milesMildenhallRoman town · ~9.7 milesBattle of Roundway Down 1643Battle (1643) · ~3.4 miles
Domesday entry for Allington, Wiltshire →
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