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Tempsford Barrow Cemetery is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Bedfordshire, comprising a group of earthen mounds that represents a significant example of funerary practice during the later prehistoric period. The site dates primarily to the Bronze Age, when barrow construction was a widespread practice across southern England for the interment of high-status individuals and community members. The cemetery's multiple barrows reflect the sustained use of the location across generations, demonstrating continuity in burial traditions and territorial attachment to the landscape. Such barrow cemeteries are valuable archaeological resources for understanding social organisation, ritual practice, and settlement patterns during the Bronze Age.
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow cemetery, Tempsford is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1491633. View the official record →
Tempsford Barrow Cemetery is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Bedfordshire, comprising a group of earthen mounds that represents a significant example of funerary practice during the later prehistoric period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1491633.
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow cemetery, Tempsford 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 1491633.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval fishery and warren in Home Wood (6.5 km), Bronze Age Round Barrow and Later Settlement on Biggleswade Common (6.5 km), Probable Romano-Celtic Temple and Aligned Enclosures at Biggleswade Common (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Late Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow cemetery, Tempsford's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow cemetery, Tempsford stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.