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Linear Barrow Cemetery on Hackpen Hill is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire. The site comprises a linear arrangement of barrows extending across the hill, typical of the funerary practices characteristic of the Bronze Age period, when communities established cemeteries containing multiple burial mounds in organised formations. Such linear barrow cemeteries represent significant evidence of social organisation and ritual practices during the later prehistoric period. The monument has been designated as a nationally important archaeological site and contributes substantially to understanding burial customs and settlement patterns in prehistoric Wiltshire.
Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013315. View the official record →
Linear Barrow Cemetery on Hackpen Hill is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monument located in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013315.
Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen 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 1013315.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthwork W of New Town Farm (8.6 km), Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse (8.9 km), Three bowl barrows 600m south-west of Knap Cottage (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill'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.
Linear barrow cemetery on Hackpen Hill stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.