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Mutlow Hill tumulus

England
List entry 1006932
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1006932
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.08 hectares
Grid reference
TL 54663 54380
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Mutlow Hill tumulus is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Cambridgeshire. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument, representing the funerary practices of prehistoric communities in the East Anglian landscape. Such tumuli typically contained inhumation or cremation burials accompanied by grave goods, though the specific archaeological contents and dimensions of this particular mound are not widely documented in accessible scholarly literature. The monument's survival as an upstanding feature makes it significant for understanding the distribution and morphology of burial practices across the Cambridgeshire region during the prehistoric period.

Mutlow Hill tumulus is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006932. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Mutlow Hill tumulus?

Mutlow Hill tumulus is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial mound located in Cambridgeshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006932.

Who is responsible for protecting Mutlow Hill tumulus?

Mutlow Hill tumulus 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 1006932.

What other scheduled monuments are near Mutlow Hill tumulus?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Four bowl barrows 920m and 950m south east of Heath Farm, part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Charterhouse Plantation (1.8 km), Bowl barrow 1080m north east of Worsted Lodge Farm, part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Charterhouse Plantation (2 km), Bowl barrow on Copley Hill (3.9 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
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Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Four bowl barrows 920m and 950m south east of Heath Farm, part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Charterhouse Plantation
1.8 km
Bowl barrow 1080m north east of Worsted Lodge Farm, part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Charterhouse Plantation
2 km
Bowl barrow on Copley Hill
3.9 km
Long barrow and enclosure 870m ENE of Copley Hill Farm
4.1 km
Wormwood Hill tumulus
5.2 km
Wandlebury Camp: a multivallate hillfort, earlier univallate hillfort, Iron Age cemetery and 17th century formal garden remains
5.3 km
Causewayed enclosure and bowl barrow at Little Trees Hill
6 km
Brent Ditch
7.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Mutlow Hill tumulus

Mutlow Hill tumulus stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Mutlow Hill tumulus

CambridgeRoman town · ~7 milesGreat ChesterfordRoman town · ~7.5 milesGodmanchesterRoman town · ~21.1 miles
Domesday entry for Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire →
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