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Newton Barrows is a round barrow cemetery situated on Earl's Farm Down in Wiltshire, England, comprising a Bronze Age burial landscape of considerable archaeological importance. The site consists of multiple burial mounds arranged across the downland, representing funerary practices and settlement patterns characteristic of the Bronze Age period, roughly 2200 to 800 BC. The barrows demonstrate the ritual and social organisation of prehistoric communities in the Wiltshire chalk landscape, an area particularly rich in such monumental burials. The cemetery's survival and formal designation reflect its value as evidence for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and the ceremonial use of the English landscape during this formative prehistoric period.
Newton Barrows, a round barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015902. View the official record →
Newton Barrows is a round barrow cemetery situated on Earl's Farm Down in Wiltshire, England, comprising a Bronze Age burial landscape of considerable archaeological importance. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015902.
Newton Barrows, a round barrow cemetery on Earl's Farm 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 1015902.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 50m west of the Battery Hill triangulation point (6.6 km), Long barrow 140m WSW of the Battery Hill triangulation point (6.6 km), Figsbury Ring (7.2 km).
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