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Long barrow 540m south west of Sanders's Cross is a Neolithic burial monument located in Devon, England. The site represents the funerary practices of early farming communities who inhabited south-western Britain during the fourth and third millennia before the present era. As a long barrow, it would have functioned as a communal tomb, likely constructed from earth and stone to contain the remains of multiple individuals from a single settlement or kinship group. The monument's survival to the present day, despite millennia of agricultural use and landscape change, testifies to the durability of Neolithic monumental architecture in the Devon landscape.
Long barrow 540m south west of Sanders's Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018517. View the official record →
Long barrow 540m south west of Sanders's Cross is a Neolithic burial monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018517.
Long barrow 540m south west of Sanders's Cross 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 1018517.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Three bowl barrows 250m west of Bower (3.6 km), Camp in Woodford Wood (3.9 km), Two bowl barrows one immediately north and one 100m south of Commonmoor Cottage forming part of a round barrow cemetery (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Long barrow 540m south west of Sanders's Cross's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Long barrow 540m south west of Sanders's Cross stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.