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Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monument on North Down in Wiltshire, comprising a long barrow of chambered type adjoined by a later bowl barrow forming the focal point of a wider barrow cemetery. The long barrow, dating to the Neolithic period, represents a substantial communal burial structure characteristic of early agricultural settlement in southern Britain, whilst the bowl barrow abutting it belongs to the Bronze Age and demonstrates the reuse and extension of prehistoric ritual landscapes across multiple millennia. Together these monuments illustrate the layering of funerary practice across the Neolithic and Bronze Age, with the later bowl barrow physically attached to the earlier earthwork, creating a composite monument. The site forms part of the concentrated distribution of burial mounds across North Down, reflecting the archaeological intensity of ritual and burial activity in this region of the Wiltshire chalk downlands.
Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013239. View the official record →
Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monument on North Down in Wiltshire, comprising a long barrow of chambered type adjoined by a later bowl barrow forming the focal point of a wider barrow cemetery. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013239.
Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down 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 1013239.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including All Cannings Cross, an Early Iron Age settlement site (4.5 km), Earthwork enclosure on Milk Hill (5.2 km), Bowl barrow 150m north of the Alton White Horse (5.6 km).
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Long barrow and abutting bowl barrow 700m WSW of Beckhampton Buildings, forming the focus of a barrow cemetery on North Down stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.